More than 800 million people use ChatGPT each week, according to OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot. Since its public launch in late 2022, the company promoted the artificial intelligence chatbot as a “revolutionary” productivity tool transforming the future of work. But, in an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post found that users are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks. The Post analyzed a collection of

(I linked to the Yahoo version of the article because it’s not paywalled. Original WaPo article is here.)

Since its public launch in late 2022, [OpenAI] promoted [ChatGPT] as a “revolutionary” productivity tool transforming the future of work. But, in an analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations, The Washington Post found that users are overwhelmingly turning to the chatbot for advice and companionship, not productivity tasks.

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    That used to be true, but Claude is now getting substantially worse.

    I suspect that what’s happening is that they are trying to bleed out money in slightly less torrential amounts every month, so they’re trying hard to constrain how much resources the thing is allowed to consume, meaning that it started out smart and is now getting steadily dumber over time. I was trying to use Claude for a coding project today, and while I’ll admit the questions were complex, it really was remarkably dumb in a way that it didn’t used to be.