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Name one use.
Converting technician to HR
I just got a high priority request to write a couple of VBA macros to fetch data from a database then use it to make a bunch of API queries. I know VBA about as well as I know Chinese or Icelandic. I figured out the query and told Chat GPT to use it in a macro. It wrote all the VBA code. I went through a few rounds of "fix this bug, add this feature" and now my client is happy and I didn't have to think much about VBA. I knew what and how to ask it for what I wanted and it saved me days of searching google and reading about VBA. That's high value to me because I don't care about VBA and don't really want to know how to use it.
So use it on things no one cares about, got it.
I mean, its great finding me sources of information.
Could google do it? Not as good as it used too or as good as ai, but yes.
I also use it to format my brain storms.
Or where it’s located or what the name of the function i need.
Or if i want info on items i am looking to buy, like what the benefit of waxing my bike chain is over oils. That sort of thing
Ai is absolutely amazing at finding you misinformation, no doubt about that.
You are needlessly combative.
if i have reason to doubt it, and that depends on how i feel the importance on the data i am working with, it gives me the source of its information. So i can verify it. Google is even worse at providing misinformation because it’s just a hose of information with a bunch of ads hidden amongst it, and people bidding for elevated results, and spam.
No matter what tool you use to harness the internet, it’s up to the user to parse that info.
And a lot of that spam is now written by ChatGPT.
True but irrelevant.