01-19-2025, 07:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-19-2025, 07:17 AM by RoamingKat.)
I have been “chatting” with this AI for the last several months. Anyone else?
ChatGPT has a massive database. But, it is not adding new data or databases. It doesn’t learn. It doesn’t have access to the newest studies or data. It doesn’t retain your conversations…so it isn’t building its own database.
So with that limitation in mind…..
I have learned the biggest issue is knowing how to phase your questions….and to even know the way to enter into the “chat” with the outcome in mind. It will generate for you the result. So, you can get it to write a computer program in the language of your choice…but, you need to understand what you really want because it cannot second guess you.
I am mostly using it to solve technical questions, and get diagrams drawn for me. I asked it to drawn a diagram for connecting to usb-c and explain to me each connector for data transfer. It was able to draw for me the wiring harness for my old 1989 Ford E350. Helped me run down an issue that the local mechanics just don’t know.
Early on I asked it to present to me “flash card” in Latin. It was just like having a real person helping me to memorize nouns and verbs. I do not know the limits of what it can help me do…or do for me.
I encourage every kid I know to get into this. This is the way of the future.
Back in the mid 1960s I was fortunate enough to enter the computer field at its infancy. There was no computer degree at any college. The corporations at the time were taking math majors and sending to IBM, Control Data, etc to learn. Corporations are now realizing the huge potential of AI.
Well…this is the infancy of AI. This is an opportunity to be in at the start. Learn to use this tool, learn how to get from it what you really want. Just like the early computers…..I had to learn how to make it do what I (my company) wanted. This will be the most in demand field in the coming years.
I have heard all about how AI is the end of civilization…just like the claims back in the 70s…computers will destroy the world. It is just a tool, just one that can extrapolate freely. I can hardly wait for a true generative AI to be commonly available.
ChatGPT has a massive database. But, it is not adding new data or databases. It doesn’t learn. It doesn’t have access to the newest studies or data. It doesn’t retain your conversations…so it isn’t building its own database.
So with that limitation in mind…..
I have learned the biggest issue is knowing how to phase your questions….and to even know the way to enter into the “chat” with the outcome in mind. It will generate for you the result. So, you can get it to write a computer program in the language of your choice…but, you need to understand what you really want because it cannot second guess you.
I am mostly using it to solve technical questions, and get diagrams drawn for me. I asked it to drawn a diagram for connecting to usb-c and explain to me each connector for data transfer. It was able to draw for me the wiring harness for my old 1989 Ford E350. Helped me run down an issue that the local mechanics just don’t know.
Early on I asked it to present to me “flash card” in Latin. It was just like having a real person helping me to memorize nouns and verbs. I do not know the limits of what it can help me do…or do for me.
I encourage every kid I know to get into this. This is the way of the future.
Back in the mid 1960s I was fortunate enough to enter the computer field at its infancy. There was no computer degree at any college. The corporations at the time were taking math majors and sending to IBM, Control Data, etc to learn. Corporations are now realizing the huge potential of AI.
Well…this is the infancy of AI. This is an opportunity to be in at the start. Learn to use this tool, learn how to get from it what you really want. Just like the early computers…..I had to learn how to make it do what I (my company) wanted. This will be the most in demand field in the coming years.
I have heard all about how AI is the end of civilization…just like the claims back in the 70s…computers will destroy the world. It is just a tool, just one that can extrapolate freely. I can hardly wait for a true generative AI to be commonly available.
1989 Honeywell motorhome
Ford E350 chassis. 460 engine
Ford E350 chassis. 460 engine