I call it my "low IQ assistant". If I have some menial task that I don't feel like coding, I ask the AI to do it for me and it's usually pretty good - except that you do need to check everything! You could ask a junior to do the same thing.
I have tested a number of AIs with a bunch of tech questions and the one that got by far the highest score was Bing Chat - that said I didn't have access to GPT-4 and Bing Chat is essentially GPT-4 but for free. It's now called Copilot. I also use it for assisting in comprehending business requirements. I take a doco and ask it to group common themes and produce summaries of the requirements. Like most developers, my attention would be struggling otherwise. I can also ask it to act like a BDD expert and produce Gherkin statements for the testers. It helps a lot when I get stuck on a problem. I often get a much better answer if I ask Bing Chat than if I try to Google it. That could, of course, be a consequence of how bad Google has become at providing an answer. Sometimes other people in the team have issues and they come to me with a much more sophisticated problem. This might mean that I don't even know the context of the issue they are having, but I can interrogate Bing Chat and it will give me a response that is quite helpful in many cases. It helps when I want to get started on a new problem. I can ask it what I think I need to know and it often returns answers that help me fine tune what I am trying to do. Sometimes that requires multiple interactions. If I'm looking for a new library to solve a problem, I can ask it for advice on what to look at. It is often helpful, but sometimes makes wrong assumptions about what I am trying to achieve. The important thing is it gives me an idea of some libraries to consider. Finally, there comes a point at which its value drops and I am getting better at detecting when that happens and...head to stack overflow. > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:25 PM Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet < ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > There were other things I should have mentioned. > > > > The new PowerPoint co-pilot where you just say “Prepare me a presentation > about what’s in xyz.docx” is pretty amazing. > > > > I’ve used ChatGPT to rewrite marketing blurb for various things. It does > that very well. However, I’ve asked it to improve a paragraph of writing, > and find that something like the Hemmingway editor does a far superior job. > > > > In Teams, having the AI tool write a summary of what just happened in a > meeting is pretty stunning. > > > > We are going to just be using these tools all day long. > > > > Regards, > > > > Greg > > > > Dr Greg Low > > > > 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile > > SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZbisdwDooYFalucb-vLhjG0McaanBZKn0UVuognuHqfHnjp2AVc&m=I23jyX4AKIv9q2x7A3CQAer9PGCjq8R6DwW7BE1IAhZ1JbigKMrMPRCjs6AqW7h3&s=o3oFliHztOF8D9Nbqaa7KQdqC-zkQNXWl4IqnEG58Wc&e=> > | > About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__about.me_greg.low&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZbisdwDooYFalucb-vLhjG0McaanBZKn0UVuognuHqfHnjp2AVc&m=I23jyX4AKIv9q2x7A3CQAer9PGCjq8R6DwW7BE1IAhZ1JbigKMrMPRCjs6AqW7h3&s=NsAibgiqfCxsyc8m2DBKogKQcs3OqE3mkyCjmpoYxTk&e=> > > > > *From:* Dr Greg Low > *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 12:11 PM > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Cc:* Tom Gao <t...@tomgao.com> > *Subject:* RE: AI > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > For me, it depends what you want it to do. It certainly can appear to help > someone who’s new to an area. > > > > For most code writing, I’ve been pretty underwhelmed. As an example, if I > ask it to write SQL, I get a very poor outcome. It will use old deprecated > views instead of the current system views (that have been around for a > decade), and often does things in a convoluted way. > > > > What I have been impressed with, is how it can help you understand > acronyms, etc. Quite amazing. I’ve also been pretty impressed with using it > go generate some test data, including in multiple languages. And the test > data is fairly believable. If I ask it for family names, and I also ask for > Chinese, it does pick common Chinese family names in the test output. > That’s pretty impressive. > > > > It can do a reasonable job of things like “here’s some DAX code, can you > simplify it?” It often can. Or “here’s a regular expression, can you > explain what it does?” and it does that just fine. I’ve seen people happily > using it to explain code that they don’t understand, or to (sort of) > document some code. > > > > But it also is so confident on things, yet so wrong. I gave it a 25 > question baseball umpire test the other day. It was 100% confident > sounding, but 40% correct. The weird thing is that some of the questions > that it got right, are things that new human umpires often get wrong. Yet > for simpler questions, it would say that something legal is illegal. > > > > It’s certainly interesting, but it’s very much a work in progress. It will > be part of our futures. > > > > Regards, > > > > Greg > > > > Dr Greg Low > > > > 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile > > SQL Down Under | Web: https://sqldownunder.com > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sqldownunder.com_&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZbisdwDooYFalucb-vLhjG0McaanBZKn0UVuognuHqfHnjp2AVc&m=I23jyX4AKIv9q2x7A3CQAer9PGCjq8R6DwW7BE1IAhZ1JbigKMrMPRCjs6AqW7h3&s=o3oFliHztOF8D9Nbqaa7KQdqC-zkQNXWl4IqnEG58Wc&e=> > | > About Greg: https://about.me/greg.low > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__about.me_greg.low&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=2rgtwrXggQFZiZbisdwDooYFalucb-vLhjG0McaanBZKn0UVuognuHqfHnjp2AVc&m=I23jyX4AKIv9q2x7A3CQAer9PGCjq8R6DwW7BE1IAhZ1JbigKMrMPRCjs6AqW7h3&s=NsAibgiqfCxsyc8m2DBKogKQcs3OqE3mkyCjmpoYxTk&e=> > > > > *From:* Tom Gao via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 11:58 AM > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Cc:* Tom Gao <t...@tomgao.com> > *Subject:* AI > > > > Hi guys, I haven't posted in a few years and haven't been on the tools for > a long time now as well. I'm on a panel on a digital conference coming up > in march. We had a pre meeting today and the topic of AI came up. Two of > the panelist said cited CBA and Westpac using AI and were able to save 30% > on development effort. > > > > Personally I just finished an AI course my view is quite the opposite. My > personal opinion of the generative AI space and AI in general having spent > time with the academics is that the benefits are significantly over > inflated. > > > > I want to get some other opinions if you are seeing any significant > benefit and that I may be just out of touch or not aware. > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > -- > ozdotnet mailing list > To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/ >
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