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Right off the bat I have to comment and say that the art piece "Feeling something" exuded a very strong Kandinsky vibe. I loved that one for sure.

Other than that this is an excellent and helpful article.

I have not spent much time with either Chat Gpt 4 or Bard, but I have used both and what I enjoyed most spending time doing with them was acting like a guide to get it to "personalize" its answer to my prompt questions.

With the start of the new year I will be signed up with the paid Chat Gpt service and making prolific use of it as an intellectual stimulant among other things.

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Jan 31, 2023Liked by Alberto Romero
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Yep, I'd say those belong to the "content modification" category

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I’ve found it to be great for writing simple Python scripts. For example, I got it to write a script to build a loan amortization table and save it to excel, given user inputs about loan amount, etc.

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Hey Dave, I'd say it works if you know exactly what you're doing (like with GitHub Copilot). But I don't think that's where ChatGPT shines the most.

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Well, I definitely don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to Python. I’m very much a newbie coder...

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Then I'd proceed with caution, ChatGPT isn't the king of reliability... Of course, it all depends on the task--I wouldn't rely on it if it's too complex but for easy tasks it may work just fine.

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Yup definitely makes sense. As I said, these are simple python scripts. Run locally, for my own education. No risk involved.

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Good to know!

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Very nice. My favourite use is as a partner in a Socratic dialogue. It gives me the plain, first-order, everyone-thinks-that answers, and I get to probe and and push it, and through that clarify my own thinking.

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Great article. many thanks!

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Great column! You might be interested in today’s post Evolutionshift.Substack.com with my interactions with ChatGPT

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