User: OverflowAI how do I tie my shoes? OverflowAI: That’s a dumb question. Just wear velcro shoes. User: But the thing is I really need to know how to tie my shoe laces.
Stack Overflow Mods: [This post has been answered and is now closed.]
What makes you think that? Just yesterday I asked “how can I make an excel file in X language?”
GPT-4 suggested two libraries, one popular but not maintained, the other new(ish) and maintained. It told me how to install the latter and provided sample code for a simple hello world spreadsheet.
I was then able to ask for a few tweaks, like sending output to stdout instead of to a file on disk, and using 4,2 cell coordinates instead of D2 coordinates. It was able to tell me how to tell Excel that “4 Feb 2042” is a date value, not a string value, make the heading columns bold, make the column widths automatically calculated based on the content, etc etc.
The whole think was so one-of-a-kind I doubt you could find questions to all those answers (especially with a specific library) on the regular Stack Overflow and even if they are there it’d be a dozen separate questions that I’d need to piece together.
If it’s trained on previous community interaction, it’s just going to automatically tell people (in the rudest way possible) their question is a duplicate and kill the thread for each and every new post.
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So they banned chatGPT answers because they didn’t want competition!
As an AI model, I cannot answer duplicate questions. Please check this completely unrelated question instead.
User: OverflowAI how do I tie my shoes?
OverflowAI: That’s a dumb question. Just wear velcro shoes.
User: But the thing is I really need to know how to tie my shoe laces.
Stack Overflow Mods: [This post has been answered and is now closed.]
OverflowAI: duplicate of “how to tie-dye a shirt”
Will the ai be as cowardly as the people who vote to close without comment?
Oh great. Another place on the web where my usage of it will simply feed some new language model.
Someone here needs to make federated StackExchange.
The generally unhelpful attitude of the community aside, I don’t think these one-of-a-kind problems lend themselves to AI very well.
What makes you think that? Just yesterday I asked “how can I make an excel file in X language?”
GPT-4 suggested two libraries, one popular but not maintained, the other new(ish) and maintained. It told me how to install the latter and provided sample code for a simple hello world spreadsheet.
I was then able to ask for a few tweaks, like sending output to
stdoutinstead of to a file on disk, and using4,2cell coordinates instead ofD2coordinates. It was able to tell me how to tell Excel that “4 Feb 2042” is a date value, not a string value, make the heading columns bold, make the column widths automatically calculated based on the content, etc etc.The whole think was so one-of-a-kind I doubt you could find questions to all those answers (especially with a specific library) on the regular Stack Overflow and even if they are there it’d be a dozen separate questions that I’d need to piece together.
will it also shit on you?
If it’s trained on previous community interaction, it’s just going to automatically tell people (in the rudest way possible) their question is a duplicate and kill the thread for each and every new post.
Great, now an AI is gonna tell me my questions are dumb
Easy, just use AI to word it for you