ChatGPT is mindblowing.
It’s hard to describe just how good it is, and I’ve seen people poke at it, ask it dumb questions – and completely unable to see what its good for.
Even asking it what its good for is a dumb question, and the answer doesn’t do the system justice.
When we do a search – we are normally trying to complete some piece of work, or trying to get at some piece of information hidden from us.
With Google – we do that, by SEACHING and finding people who have written stuff about that topic, and we bounce around page after page after page – mentally collating which bits of contents were good or bad – and then going and using what we’ve learnt to complete whatever task it was.
The problem with Search, is that out there is a sea of duplicate, conflicting, info – whose only redeeming feature was – that it just HAPPENED to have the word in that we were searching for.
We use a dumb search to find things that have words in, and we then have to go and do something with that result.
ChatGPT doesn’t do that. You tell it what it is you’re trying to do, and it will do it for you.
Things that would have taken days of searching, combining, recreating, suddenly become an act of writing a sentence and getting an answer.
What is shocking is how good it is.
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Ask for suggestions for an advertising slogan for a company that tests tyres.
Ask it to write you a poem with a rabbit, a toothbrush and a snake in it.
Ask it to describe Stonehenge in language appropriate for a ten year old.
Ask it for suggestions as to who the Scottish actor is who played Dr Who
Ask it for the difference in height between two different towns
Ask it to product a policy document for the management and maintenance of a web server using ITIL
Ask it what order should an SSL VST plugin come in – when used in a DAW
This one Amazed me.
Ask it to produce a powershell script, which opens a dialog window – and presents a list of English counties, and then when the user clicks on the country – display a list of the 20 largest towns in the county for the user to click.
ChatGPT is as revolutionary as Search was when it first came on the Internet.
