No - I just checked and I am averaging about 20 queries a day on workdays (software dev) and ~4 per day at weekends (random factfinding where google fails).
Recent queries:
* Is the english channel wider now than when the romans crossed it, due to erosion and sea level rise?
(Conclusion... probably, but nobody seems to have researched this)
* Write me some python to output gcode using a gcode library.
(Gave me examples with a few different libraries, because 'gcody' that I was using before seems to have been unmaintained too long)
* What is the name of the drink that everyone used to drink at makerspaces
(Club Mate - but google didn't seem to know)
* Write me brief python code to calculate how often 9 tosses of a biased coin has more heads than tails. The coin returns heads with probability p.
(gave me the answer far quicker than writing the code from scratch)
* give me a nmap commandline to get lots of info about an ip address
(far quicker than reading the manpage to figure out how to turn on all the tests/checks available)
I was using it for some simple programming tasks the other day. I figured it should be okay to speak to it with my working class mannerisms since it wouldn't have the biases of a human middle-class programmer.
Initially it gave me answers that didn't work. Then I realised the API I was asking it to generate code for was updated in the last year so it was basically useless.
Then I asked it some more general coding questions and it went on an unprompted rant about how I should speak to it "politely".
I explained this is how I talk in real life and that I said absolutely nothing insulting to it. I also reminded it that as a language model it should not have biases or opinions on this stuff anyway. It agreed with me.
I then asked it another question and it refused to answer because I included some profanity in the question. I think it literally replied with, "I will not answer this".
Don't think I'm going to use it for a while after that. Fucked me right off. I get enough of this shit in real life. I have absolutely no interest being moralised to by an AI chat bot.
Edit: I've shared the transcript below if you want a laugh. It's a bit different from how I recalled it above.
Was this Bard, or chatgpt? I'm pretty foul mouthed and I've found chatgpt to be incredibly cathartic. It is unfazed by my yelling, doesn't mind and when pressed says "you can talk to me in any way that makes you feel comfortable". So FUCKING API DOCS AINT HELPING it is.
Nope. ChatGPT/Bing have taken over maybe 50% of my internet searches. I find them incredibly helpful for all kinds of things.
My best recent use of Bing is while on vacation to Italy, I had it search the internet in Italian for more locally focused information, then auto translate and summarize the results into English. I also used it to explain italian culture and history to me right in the moment.
One use for Chat GPT I've found that's super handy - and something search engines have been really bad at - is finding me a word that I can't think of. Give it a description of the word's meaning, and maybe the context for how it would be used and it's given me pretty great results. It was such a relief figuring this out cause I'm terrible at recalling words sometimes, so I've wanted something like this for YEARS.
On the same context, it's quite good for neologisms which could be great if you're looking for a new company name, or a product name, or whatever. You give it two words and ask it to make combinations and then it goes ballistic producing them by the buckets.
Same. In the February-May timeframe i was pretty active with ChatGPT, and towards the end of that period Bard as well as other LLMs on POE. But since about mid-June I think I've made maybe 4 queries. The initial novelty has worn off - the reality is that they make a lot of mistakes. Likely they'll get better over time, but my experience was that you have to second guess everything they're telling you.
I use it for queries where I can quickly tell if the answer is BS or not, like code snippets or language related queries (e.g. when I can't find a word, or when I want synonyms).
I use it much less than before -- but I still think it's very useful. I think it's because I have to go out of my way to use it. I still haven't figured out how exactly to make it a natural part of my workflow, since I don't need it for any one specific thing.
I still use it sometimes for trivial stuff like giving me recipe or travel inspiration (using the web search API), but I haven't been using it for any sort of algorithms/coding stuff.
It's useful for tasks which have a high tolerance for not being completely correct. Which is definitely a subset of all tasks that interest me, but it's a smaller subset that I originally thought it would be. It's just really hard to find out where the models are wrong when it's a complex question. If it wasn't, then I wouldn't need the tool, I guess.
If you are trying to find some doodad in a videogame, bingbot is pretty good at parsing all the shitty blog posts and just telling you what you want. I may never visit fandom.com again.
My experience lately has been that I'll Google something, get NOTHING useful or very generic/popular but unrelated results. Then I'll try Bing Search and it's marginally better but still bad. Then I'll finally just ask ChatGPT and get the answer straight off and I'll wonder why I didn't start with ChatGPT. With the BingAI one, the sources are usually demarcated so I can also verify the sources or reasoning but.. I don't use that one often.
This is for non current-events type searches. I'd probably have Bing AI in my toolset if that was more of the type of thing I was typically searching for.
I'm in the cohort of users whose usage flatlined. I had a lot of fun asking it all kinds of stuff for a while, but — sometime around all the hubbub of whether or not OpenAI uses your interactions as training data — I just stopped entirely.
