I will just agree to disagree. Skeptics always have a lot to say, but nobody remembers them. Not even the super edgy ones on Reddit. A company willing to publicly try and risk failing has my respect. I look forward to their results, pass or fail. Either way, we learn something we didn't know before.

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Same, I used to hate writing copy or product descriptions. This makes it so easy

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What types of problems?

> it has easily saved me 100 hours since release

That's the thing people are missing. It's not going to replace everyone, it's a tool that can reduce the hours a project can take. That means people are going to be put out of work in the way CNC machines replaced machinists.

I use ChatGPT to assist with coding on projects and I use it the way I use my CNC machines. It isn't going to do the whole job for me, but if I set it up correctly it will output the result I need that works. If I set it up poorly, with the wrong tools and substandard programs, then it spits out a result that is crap, and I'm to blame rather than the machine.

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No, the thing with ChatGPT is it will generate responses regardless of if they are true as long as it has partial information, instead of just saying "I don't know."

I asked it information about a book series and it had a partial understanding of the events, characters, and setting of the story. But it would often generate events, characters, etc when I asked anything specific about the series instead of simply denying it has in-depth knowledge.

So if you ask it about french restaurants in your city, it might have information about your city, and french restaurant names in general and so draw from that to make up restaurants.

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I used it to help me with homework, basically to test my results against theirs. Time and time again it uses the correct formula but then does errors in calculation, but always says its infallable. Don't remember the exact values but It once wanted me to believe that ~0.46 is about the same as ~0.10, in a calculation about probability.

In short, I don't fully trust it, but it can be helpful if I'm stuck in a problem because it often finds the right approach.

Are you a programmer? If your not, you should learn JavaScript or python something high level not low level. With gtp 4 even gtp 3.5 its a godsend. If your a programmer you know how to ask the right questions to reach your goals 90% time. You cant ask for more then 1 or 2 functions at a time atm.

I asked it to write a law prohibiting Conversion Therapy. It gave me a good start. I then asked for a law prohibiting Conversion Therapy while protecting Constitutional rights. These gave me some great ideas. Finally I asked for a fictional “authoritarian” version…. Gave me some things to avoid…. This was in lieu of hundreds of hours of legislative research that employees making $55K would’ve been doing.

a universal basic income would be around what is needed to live of. so if 250 a month is the cost you'd have then and there in a system with ubi. to survive a full month without having to live like an underpaid poor person.

so if 250 covers: food, housing, gas, electricity, internet(it's pretty much needed to do anything like a job so yeah it counts), and schooling then 250 is plenty.

I use it to respond to my girlfriends text messages, also when I need to provide a small but clever reply to posts online.

Is it not subject to licence, so if you did actually invent something with it, OpenAI could assert rights over it?

>That is not promising a result. It's simply making a statement. A propulsion device that uses only electricity would have the power to do exactly that. That would also clearly exceed our imagination...

Well you can't have it both ways. You took issue with me saying they were making world changing claims, and now you say if their claims are borne out they'll be world-changing.

>Obviously, they think it will work if they are willing to put up rocket launch money.

This is far from obvious. They are getting funding. Lots and lots of times companies have made revolutionary claims that eventually turned out to be bunk and kept pushing to the next demonstration until it became untenable because that's how you keep money coming in. I don't know that will happen in this case, but the fact they are proposing a launch does not prove anything.

We will see, eventually. But their behavior up to now does not inspire confidence.

The same country that has to infringe on copyrights and can't even develop their own car? Mkay..next week Warp drive engines and Flux capacitors

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That is not promising a result. It's simply making a statement. A propulsion device that uses only electricity would have the power to do exactly that. That would also clearly exceed our imagination, considering what we believe is possible does not align with what they are claiming their propulsion might do. None of that is a promise of results. Their most recent news also says, "after demonstration and baselining of the IVO Quantum Drive’s performance specifications," which means it is going to prove that it can work and to what extent. Obviously, they think it will work if they are willing to put up rocket launch money.

I was trying to get this across before, but so far have been unsuccessful. You seem to come up with every theory you can for why he gets "headwinds" except for the theory that other scientists genuinely think he is wrong in good faith. I see no reason to assume that all the other scientists in this space are either corrupt or blinded by politics. I think it is a much more reasonable explanation that they are simply unimpressed with his work.

I use it as a personal programming tutor. It has been amazing for that

This article about his first DARPA funding https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/scientists-receive-13-million-to-study-new-propulsion-idea-for-spacecraft

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I meant QI theory, that it has seen lot of headwind not this IVO company his been working with. I've been following Mike Culloch's journey through his tweets. He is politically on the right so his theory has been getting bit headwinds of because his political views. Which is sad because science so be matter on its merits not how scientists view the world. So if you follow him expect some right wing stuff as well ;) DARPA for example has been funding him as well so they at least they thing something might be there.
Of course company would get headwinds as well because if they prove theory is right then quite likely all that huge funding for dark matter will be gone forever.

say that to microsoft I guess