I'm pretty happy with Chat GPT. There was yet-another thread about the degradation of Google Search results a few weeks ago and folks here talked about the uselessness of it's results. I remember when my mom taught me to "search like a pro" back in the 90s. She was a librarian and she taught me valuable things before those search parameters were known as "Google hacks". I remember how powerful it felt to be able to find anything related to what I wanted to know. Google still provides useful results - buried in all the crap. There's so much valuable info to find, and so much more crap in 2023. The signal to noise ratio is worse.
So I tried Chat GPT recently and I asked it about something I've never quite understood. "How is an antenna designed to prevent the feedline emanating radio waves?" and it gave me a very focused explanation of how impedance is matched between the feedline and antenna to reduce standing waves and power being reflected back to the transmitter. I was so happy with this, because although i could find countless resources on antenna design they were much too dry for my understanding. I was always lost navigating the text because I didn't have the formal education to piece together 'what they're saying over here relates to what is being said over here'. You have to have a certain level of comprehension with the subject material to locate information.
I think Chat GPT and things like it represent the search engines of tomorrow. There's a DEFINITE risk of creating recycled, incorrect content and prompting it circularly into the same dumpster of misinformation. However, I spent 15-20 minutes re-articulating my question about antennas and "what part of the antenna prevents this?" and I came away very happy with my new understanding.
I'm looking forward to AI-assisted learning, and it feels as magical as Google Search did in the 90s.
In another instance, I asked it how to run a Powershell script on a remote computer with psexec and it produced the correct commands but did not warn me the script had to first be copied over to the remote machine. All good explanations / demonstrations should come with clarifying questions. I'm very happy I can ask technical things like this, embarrassing things, very abstract/broad things, and have an AI that will guide me into new understanding.
Take it all with a grain of salt. Looks like I'll be doing the $20/month for ChatGPT Pro though. It's more valuable and entertaining to my day-to-day curiosities than something like Netflix.
I think we'll see research into how to appraise AI models for what has been weighted. Whether a model creates objectively fair reasonings or creates something harmful. Also data democratization of these models (having them available outside of large institutions) will be important. At the same time harmful: A comment a few down is mentioning how these things will be used to create AI influencers, or how propaganda campaigns could be entirely automated and deployed against other countries. Very real threats. :(
So I tried Chat GPT recently and I asked it about something I've never quite understood. "How is an antenna designed to prevent the feedline emanating radio waves?" and it gave me a very focused explanation of how impedance is matched between the feedline and antenna to reduce standing waves and power being reflected back to the transmitter. I was so happy with this, because although i could find countless resources on antenna design they were much too dry for my understanding. I was always lost navigating the text because I didn't have the formal education to piece together 'what they're saying over here relates to what is being said over here'. You have to have a certain level of comprehension with the subject material to locate information.
I think Chat GPT and things like it represent the search engines of tomorrow. There's a DEFINITE risk of creating recycled, incorrect content and prompting it circularly into the same dumpster of misinformation. However, I spent 15-20 minutes re-articulating my question about antennas and "what part of the antenna prevents this?" and I came away very happy with my new understanding.
I'm looking forward to AI-assisted learning, and it feels as magical as Google Search did in the 90s.
In another instance, I asked it how to run a Powershell script on a remote computer with psexec and it produced the correct commands but did not warn me the script had to first be copied over to the remote machine. All good explanations / demonstrations should come with clarifying questions. I'm very happy I can ask technical things like this, embarrassing things, very abstract/broad things, and have an AI that will guide me into new understanding.
Take it all with a grain of salt. Looks like I'll be doing the $20/month for ChatGPT Pro though. It's more valuable and entertaining to my day-to-day curiosities than something like Netflix.