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Ask HN: How chat GPT is/will impact you?
5 points by unknownhad on Jan 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
I am a cybersecurity engineer with over 10 years of experience. Since the chat GPT came out, I feel like I have a wingman who does things for me super quickly. I've used it a bit and am aware of how to use it. From a security perspective, it does some cool things, like figuring out security issues in code and sometimes providing proof-of-concept code for exploiting them. Sometimes the vulnerabilities are very theoretical and don't make sense, but I think that's alright. Other automated tools that do code reviews also bring in false positives.

I personally think chat GPT has a lot of potential and will grow and learn more over time. I don't see any reason why I wouldn't use it for almost all of my questions.

What do you think about chat GPT and how do you think it will transform your future?



I really hope ChatGPT or another, similarly capable model will continue to be available for free in quantity sufficient for personal usage (copious amounts of it). I almost don't use my free-tier GPT-3 because of a psychological barrier of being aware there is a limit, even if it should be high enough.

ChatGPT has been on my mind ever since it was made available for all kinds of possible questions from philosophy, nature, universe, law, linguistics and translation, writing code, diagrams, graphs, debugging code and systems. I've learned to intuit what kind of question will provide an interesting answer. I'm still sometimes struggling to reformulate questions it should be able to answer but provides canned responses or made up answers.

I appreciate it for creative suggestions (think "gifts for ...", "questions for ...") and for summarizing/explaining content interactively. I admire its ability to appear to be reasoning without actually reasoning.

I think the next steps for development would be:

  * Pairing it with some logical reasoning and computing engine so that it doesn't make elementary mistakes (Wolfram Alpha comes to mind as state of the art).
  * Pairing it with a knowledge graph like Wikidata.
  * Letting it browse the web to get up-to-date information in real time and process it.
  * Adding more visualization modes (it generates tables when asked) like charts and graphs (mental maps could be a popular usage), perhaps interactive ones. You can currently do this surprisingly successfully by generating the text, then plugging it to a visualization tool. There could be an automatic feedback loop where the tool points out errors and the model fixes them so that the user doesn't have to ask explicitly.


I wish it could give more people "common sense"...

For something that directly impacts myself:

People abuse the 911 system when they don't know what to do. Have a tiny water leak? Call 911. Feeling sick but lack any notion on what might be the cause? Call 911. See someone sleeping on the side of a business? Call 911. Get too drunk/high/angry/sad? Call 911. Bleeding (doesn't matter how much)? Call 911. Someone is shot/stabbed/burned/mamed/disfigured? Call 911. Car accident? Call 911. Doctor can't see you? Call 911. Doctor can't see you RIGHT NOW? Call 911.

If we could send everyone a trust worthy chatGPT that could calculate probabilities of actual life safety problems vs. the bullshit we mostly see. I posit the EMS system in America would be vastly improved. I can't tell you how many untreated fevers I see on a daily basis. A probability based recommendation of Tylenol and water could reduce ER visits by a significant percentage.


That's a good use case, as far as I have used chat GPT I can see something like this happening in near future. Though 911 is one such use case where it is really easy to misinterpret the situation by something like AI. Not sure how true is this situation but I think it would be hard for AI to judge the situation in such cases.

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-actually-call-emergency-servic...


Problem is I don't know what is the question. Maybe we should build another AI to devise a question.


My apologies for not writing this clear enough : "What do you think about chat GPT and how do you think it will transform your future?"

Essentially translates to : (Without AI ATM :) ) HN thoughts about chat GPT and how they think it can impact their industry/rule/life.


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