In this episode, Colin and CJ discuss using the new GPT tools for work and play.
Open AI
Large language models
Generative AI
How do we use it, and is it going to be doom & gloom?
How We Use It
Brainstorming & riffing on ideas
I was building something in React and hadn’t touched React in a few years. I had all this iteration going on in my components to generate dynamic content. Still, I wanted the topmost component to be able to have references to all these components to download them all as images in a zip file.
Assistance with math-based things like animation or rendering graphics
Example: I had to display a bunch of circles in a 2nd plane in a random pattern
Computers are pretty good at that
Learning how to do something new faster
Explain this to me like I’m 5
Summarizing
We use Descript for editing this podcast
Shifting the tone of writing, building a writing style
Writing video scripts
Finding obscure information
Story arcs
Brushes to write tailwind classes
Jokes
DnD character sheets
Bing to find esoteric star wars character that’s buried on Wookiepedia
Doom and gloom or boon?
What does this mean for the future?
Privacy & security concerns
Voice clones and scams (create a safe word!)
Productivity + time
Are we just going to be expected to be more productive with more output because cApItaLIsM
Constitutional AI (Anthropic)
give it principles to train on vs having human input
ChatGPT coauthored a PR to a major open-source project
via Ruby Weekly: How long is it until ChatGPT makes a pull request to Rails? Oh, it (sort of) just happened. Ultimately it's still under the name of Rails core team member Guillermo Iguaran, however.
Everything in this pull request, including the code, tests, changelog, commit message, pull request title and description has been created by ChatGPT with some guidance. If you believe ChatGPT is infringing your copyright please let me know.
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