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Dunno if I agree about the "toy" part.

I was learning a new programming language the other day and ChatGPT was able to provide much more focused/helpful responses than Google. Specifically about details of Rust borrow checker, certain syntax etc

It's true that it can give false info at times, but everything it fed to me was true at the time. Time to meaningful response much faster than Google for certain categories of questions...

It may not be a step towards AGI at all, but it's certainly useful



Agreed. Same experience. It can often ouput some falsities but when one knows what they are doing... It can accelerate coding quite a lot or be a great help in designing algorithms.

Especially since it can ouput code. (from a statement of requirements in natutal language)

Pretty useful.

Faster than going through links after links on a search engine.


It's certainly at least a step to far better knowledge aggregation, with SEO rapidly ruining search engines as they currently exist.


I think the filler SEO pages rubbed onto ChatGPT giving it a sort of roundabout filler tone.


> It may not be a step towards AGI at all

It caught on quite quickly for it not to be something very important.




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