My Skynet Moment

[Johngwyn]

I've had mixed results with chatgpt and Gemini. It had suggestions of what museums in BA were free on what days... 80 percent correct, maybe 20 percent fake news. But it was better than the alternative of looking them all up individually.

One time I used it to answer a question about some economic thing and it gave a correct answer, minus a zero on the end. Oops.

I'm not a fan and have a million reasons to roll my eyes when people cite it as an authority. Not the least of which: it's trained on copyright materials and competing directly against the people whose work was taken in the name of 'progress'. We will always want professional translators but we are going to snuff them out as a profession.

It's a blend, just like McDonald big mac, 80% of real food, 20% of unknown xxx.
Certainly it has downgrades in every aspects recently.

 

[Gringo80]

I've had mixed results with chatgpt and Gemini. It had suggestions of what museums in BA were free on what days... 80 percent correct, maybe 20 percent fake news. But it was better than the alternative of looking them all up individually.

One time I used it to answer a question about some economic thing and it gave a correct answer, minus a zero on the end. Oops.

I'm not a fan and have a million reasons to roll my eyes when people cite it as an authority. Not the least of which: it's trained on copyright materials and competing directly against the people whose work was taken in the name of 'progress'. We will always want professional translators but we are going to snuff them out as a profession.

 

[Gringo80]

I submitted my request and then look carefully at the itinerary that was produced. I have no idea whether this is or recommended approach or not, but I modified my request to exclude and include certain things and change the style of presentation. On the 2nd or 3rd pass I got something I liked. I saved the modified request so that I can make changes and produce a new itinerary quickly in the future.

 

[mageesa]

I submitted my request and then look carefully at the itinerary that was produced. I have no idea whether this is or recommended approach or not, but I modified my request to exclude and include certain things and change the style of presentation. On the 2nd or 3rd pass I got something I liked. I saved the modified request so that I can make changes and produce a new itinerary quickly in the future.

You have to double-check everything. It's a good tool to make a rough draft, if you want the most mainstream result.

But not worth the downside if you're thinking big picture. We'll see the fallout from this "innovation" faster than from climate change.