Some Articles About ChatGPT

I'm seeing a LOT of articles about the new release of ChatGPT, generative AI systems, and Large Language Models. I've played around with the ChatGPT built into Microsoft's Edge and have been impressed with some of the things it can do, like writing a Microsoft Word macro that took me a day of work to figure out when I tried it at the TMX Group. On the other hand, it's clear that anyone using it has to be extremely careful to check the accuracy of the results.

I do think that we are on the cusp of an inflection point similar to the development of the world-wide-web or the release of the iPhone. It's going to be interesting to see how it all turns out. 

Here are a few articles worth reading.

• Cheating is All You Need. "There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is. LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both." I think he's right, at least as far as the effects of LLMs on software engineering. You can skip the last quarter of the article, which is basically a plug for his compary. 
• scrapeghost is an experimental library for scraping websites using OpenAI's GPT. "The library provides a means to scrape structured data from HTML without writing page-specific code." This is pretty technical, but it shows the power of the new systems, and how easy it is to build on them if you have a moderate amount of programmig ability. Put it this way: I can understand what he did here, and I could probably do something similar with a month or so of study, based on the Javascript and web design skills I learned during my technical writing career. An experienced programmer could knock it off in a day or two. 
• Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow. " Microsoft’s Bing said Google’s Bard had been shut down after it misread a story citing a tweet sourced from a joke. It’s not a good sign for the future of online misinformation." 
• The GPT-x Revolution in Medicine. "Review of a new book with 6 months of assessing GPT-4 for medical applications." 
• 11 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level. "Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results."