Similarly, don't judge it based on its ability to solve math problems.
When you use it for the many tasks it IS suitable for it's really, really impressive.
I'm curious how this is going to play out over time. They way I interact with ChatGPT is very very different from how I interact with Google. When I try to use them the same way one of them fails in frustrating ways.
> When you use it for the many tasks it IS suitable for it's really, really impressive.
I completely agree with this. For me I've found ChatGPT to be very useful in helping to generate ideas, learn about things, or explore topics that I don't fully understand. Basically if I'm curious about something, then ChatGPT is really useful. The more I use it, the more I find that I'm poking at responses with follow up questions. It feels much more like a conversation and my interactions/approach is changing as a result. I'm now finding my approach with ChatGPT to start broad ("What's the difference between ____ and ____?"), followed by more questions to dive deeper ("Can you tell me more about ____ and provide some examples?"). It does have it's limits, but I find the way of interacting and teasing out the details that I'm after to be far more interesting and useful. And the more I use ChatGPT, the less I want to use Google. At this point, Google is mostly just simple searches only like "which service is streaming ____?" or "restaurants in my area".
Question: Yesterday evening a tree had 5 apples, a bird ate an apple from the tree at midday yesterday. No other apples were eaten from the tree. How many apples were on the tree yesterday morning?
Response: There were 5 apples on the tree yesterday evening. If a bird ate one apple from the tree at midday yesterday, then there were 5-1=4 apples on the tree yesterday morning.
I think something like automatically generating dialog for characters inside of video games in a way that's more dynamic and scalable than the clearly hardcoded dialog we have today.
People have mentioned using it to cheat on high school level English papers and blackhat SEO spam / fake social media accounts.
Roleplay exercises - practice difficult management conversations with an employee, for example.
Brainstorming ideas.
Explaining well known concepts - especially if you ask it to invent analogies or mnemonics.
Helping come up with names for things.
Puns, surprisingly.
Finding and fixing bugs in code.
Generating test data, and examples generally.
Telling stories.
Showing examples of formal writing that you haven't encountered before - I've used it to help me see what things like grant applications and sales manuals look like.
Games - so many fun games you can play with it.
Those are all examples of things I've used it for just in the past week.