It is possible that ChatGPT will give you a solution to a coding problem, but I've asked it technical questions on (non-coding) such topics as welding, and many AI hallucinations have been returned. References returned are also non-existent. It is not possible to say that ChatGPT can correctly and accurately answer technical questions, but possibly that it can return coding snippets that work. On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 16:51, Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Just curious. Microsoft has force-fed a Copilot Beta button on my Windows box next to the search window. Isn't this supposed to be a chatbot fine-tuned to developer needs? Does anyone have experience with it?
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 3:42 PM Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2024-01-13 10:30, Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote:
Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2024-01-12 20:11:
It is defiantly not useful for getting correct technical answers to problems.
That's not my experience.
I guess that depends on the definition of "correct technical answers", because it (i.e. ChatGPT) can be excellent at giving correct answers to technical (coding) problems.
I use ChatGPT a reasonable amount to quickly template code snippets because I use too many languages too infrequently to stay familiar with any of them. For trivial tasks it does quite well.
More complex tasks I have found things like calls to non-existent libraries. suggestions to use programs that do not exist.
For the most part by the time the problem gets to me, people have exhausted google et al and, there is no ready answer out there on the internet. In this case what LLMs come back with are what could be a good answer but for the fact that its wrong. The problem is that they cannot say "I don't know about that".
I will have to try the hand over a code snippet and ask what is wrong. That does sound interesting.
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