I do a lot of video and audio manipulation shit with ffmpeg and to find the right commands and flags I always use ChatGPT. It works great, much faster and better than random googling.
My employer gave us the possibility to use Microsoft Copilot at work. It is basically just chat-gpt4 for companies.
I have tried to use it a bit whenever I had questions that I would usually look up in the internet. Whenever it answers it also references the sources it got those answers from.
The default language was german so it always referenced german sources. Those were all garbage. The german internet is awful for answering IT-related questions. Just random german sites that looked like they were optimized to get as many google clicks as possible to gain ad revenue from it. If I found something like this via a search engine I would never trust it. I wouldn't even be sure if most of the articles were written by some AI itself. I think this is an interesting observation. Non-english LLM-users will always have a worse experience.
Eventually I switched everything to english. But even then it was really hard to get any usefull link from it besides wikipedia. Usually it references just posts from random forums. Especially regarding programming a big part of the internet is from Indians that shit bullshit articles and forum posts into the internet trying to gain reputation from them to score a job in the wect.
For questions that I had a hard time looking up in the internet myself it was no help at all. It just repeated what it already said over and over against. It is useless for anything that goes over the stuff you might be able to read on wikipedia yourself.
As a long term internet and search engine user the most useful skill is to filter out all the garbage links from the reliable sources. It seems like chat-gpt is not capable of doing this in the slightest. It takes everything it reads as a fact. Since most of the internet is filled with garbage it will inevitably result in chat-gpt being garbage as well. I might be able to tell chat-gpt to try to answer the question only using eg. stack-overflow but then I might just as well use google.
What do you think about AI and Large-Language-Models? What kind of experiences did you make?
> What kind of experiences did you make?
Mostly the same. It can help you only in cases when you don't know what you're doing but I try to avoid such cases in general, otherwise it brought me zero value.
The only useful application of LLMs for me was ironically the human to human interaction. Like when I need to compose a formal letter, article introduction or something of the sort.
