"Chat GPT is Amazing, please read how it helped me today" Topic

I am based in the UK and dealing with the NHS on some medical issues. Other Brits will know that this can be a difficult process. For example, I have no means to send an online message to my GP, nor to the specialist hospital I an outpatient with. They both have websites that look like they haven't been updated since the 90's and seem to go out of their way to make it impossible to contact them. I decided to present my issues to Chat GPT and it spit out a solution that has landed me a GP phone consultation on Monday. It even gave me bullet points for the call to help grease the wheels so to speak. Apparently, specific wording prompts more immediate action. This is the first time I've used Chat GPT for anything real like this and I am blown away. I've made more progress navigating the NHS in an hour than I would have in a whole day on my own. It even saves the conversation so I can pick things up after the GP appointment and get more guidance.

It's fantastic. I'm a teacher. It writes all my letters of recommendation for students. I fed it an old one I wrote so it mimics my writing style. My colleagues and I create general parameters for assignments and Chatgpt makes them. We make a few modifications and are done. Eliminated hours of work each week and kids receive the same quality of education.

These are two great use cases where generative AI shines:

* In the second, seasoned subject matter experts feed in materials that they understand in detail and use it to craft variants, reducing the grudgework in starting from a blank page.

* In the first, someone without a specific expertise is looking for synthesis of a well-defined, authoritative, yet highly complex set of references, and focus on thier specific questions of how all the different moving parts affect their concern.

If you don't mind, smithsco, do you get "flash and dross" than needs to be trimmed or thrown away? How fast did that reduce through repeated use and feedback?

For Captain Sensible, if you don't mind, did Chat GPT give you references? Links to the sources, and authoritative documents?

It's done wonders for me on adult dating sites too.

Wolfhag

Very glad for your good news.

I use it every day. Sometimes it is miraculous, sometimes it is merely helpful, sometimes it misses, and sometimes it's barking mad. But it all leans far, far in the direction of extremely helpful.

Yes, AI is going to disrupt things. Yes, some people are going to lose their jobs. Yes, it's going to do a lot of stupid things. But in the end, as with the plow and the mechanized loom and the internet we'll all be better off afterwards. This time is not different.

In terms of "flash and dross" there was to start. Our solutions to this were:
1. Include the educational standards kids need to achieve so it has a specific target
2. Give it examples of highly effective assignments we developed so it fits our collective teaching style
3. Ask if it had questions…it almost always does and if it isn't given a chance to ask them it just fills in the gaps

I'd love to know how many of the favorable comments--including the OP--were AI generated.

Thanks Wolfhag, I am sometimes asked to teach critical thinking skills for academic purposes. I try to explain that a 19 year old kid has innate critical thinking powers. However he is much more interested in employing it to get a date with the girl sitting next to him and not some esoteric truth. Tools are only of use, if we are interested in the out come of their employment.