>Can someone tell me what the hell they use ChatGPT for?
Although it's free, I pay $20 for pro version ($240 per year) plus taxes, and use it daily. I get a lot of benefits from using it.
I use it to learn about things, solve problems, suggest approaches, critique my own proposals and approaches, generate code scaffolding and smaller code solutions, help me draft emails of all kinds, etc. I find it highly useful in a variety of contexts. You can give it obfuscated impossible code and it can analyze it and tell you what it does in seconds: https://imgur.com/a/m40TR4d (someone else's result)
It can help you find bugs and mistakes in your own code.
You can also ask it to tell you about a subject and it can give you a summary. Just tell it what you want and it'll do its best.
What areas did you use it where you got wrong results for basic things, to the point where you don't find it useful? Its major limitations are around logical numeracy (it gets numbers wrong) and lack of a visual cortex, which means you can't use it for graphics code or to write you visually correct solutions. Also, it doesn't speak foreign languages perfectly, it makes some grammatical mistakes.
It mentions that it can generate a hypothesis. So a scientist can absolutely use it to make some suggestions, for example try "Generate five hypotheses a chemist might test as part of an undergraduate study program" - here are some examples: https://imgur.com/a/hOtGgKN
I'm no chemist, but those seem fine for me as undergraduate lab work tests. It's probably not going to get you a Ph.D. but often you don't need one, just a few quick brainstorming suggestions.
Some people have it plan all their meals and create recipes for them, which they then cook and eat. There are thousands of recipe sites, the reason people use ChatGPT is because they can just describe what they want, what they have, and have it come up with its own recipes based on what is available and can be purchased.
Just describe what you need and what you want it to do and it does a good job for you on all sorts of tasks.
Although it's free, I pay $20 for pro version ($240 per year) plus taxes, and use it daily. I get a lot of benefits from using it.
I use it to learn about things, solve problems, suggest approaches, critique my own proposals and approaches, generate code scaffolding and smaller code solutions, help me draft emails of all kinds, etc. I find it highly useful in a variety of contexts. You can give it obfuscated impossible code and it can analyze it and tell you what it does in seconds: https://imgur.com/a/m40TR4d (someone else's result)
It can help you find bugs and mistakes in your own code.
You can also ask it to tell you about a subject and it can give you a summary. Just tell it what you want and it'll do its best.
What areas did you use it where you got wrong results for basic things, to the point where you don't find it useful? Its major limitations are around logical numeracy (it gets numbers wrong) and lack of a visual cortex, which means you can't use it for graphics code or to write you visually correct solutions. Also, it doesn't speak foreign languages perfectly, it makes some grammatical mistakes.
I asked chatgpt about what people use it for and it gave these answers: https://imgur.com/a/qzUF5Ya
It mentions that it can generate a hypothesis. So a scientist can absolutely use it to make some suggestions, for example try "Generate five hypotheses a chemist might test as part of an undergraduate study program" - here are some examples: https://imgur.com/a/hOtGgKN
I'm no chemist, but those seem fine for me as undergraduate lab work tests. It's probably not going to get you a Ph.D. but often you don't need one, just a few quick brainstorming suggestions.
Some people have it plan all their meals and create recipes for them, which they then cook and eat. There are thousands of recipe sites, the reason people use ChatGPT is because they can just describe what they want, what they have, and have it come up with its own recipes based on what is available and can be purchased.
Just describe what you need and what you want it to do and it does a good job for you on all sorts of tasks.