ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it’s smart, researchers found::Developers often prefer ChatGPT’s responses about code to those submitted by humans, despite the bot frequently being wrong, researchers found.
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What they should have done is asked those same 12 programmers to ask a common everyday question on Stack Overflow and then while waiting for a response, ask ChatGPT the same question.
I’d bet 50 bucks almost all of them would get an acceptable answer to their question out of ChatGPT 4 in far less time than it takes the moderators at Stack Overflow to delete the question. I can’t imagine any of the questions will actually be answered on SO.
Right. The problem with SO is that you don’t actually get to ask any questions; so reason would suggest anything is at least as good as SO-- even asking a house plant, or Siri, or whatever. Something that actually answers your question would obviously be a better option.
Stack Overflow brought their irrelevance on themselves, I suspect.
12 programmers? That ChatGPT sample size is way too small to be meaningful IMO
This is the one profession I don’t mind AI taking jobs away from. Maybe that’s a bit harsh, but I’m so sick and tired of the clickbait BS.
This is the inevitable result of the decision to fund the internet at large via ads. And there would be (has been) tremendous friction from users when it comes to switching from ad-based to subscription, so we might just be stuck with it.