Just curious. Microsoft has force-fed a Copilot Beta button on my Windows box next to the search window. Isn't this supposed to be a chatbot fine-tuned to developer needs? Does anyone have experience with it?
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 3:42 PM Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2024-01-13 10:30, Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote: > > Alvin Starr via talk wrote on 2024-01-12 20:11: > > > >> It is defiantly not useful for getting correct technical answers to > >> problems. > > > > That's not my experience. > > > > I guess that depends on the definition of "correct technical answers", > > because it (i.e. ChatGPT) can be excellent at giving correct answers > > to technical (coding) problems. > > I use ChatGPT a reasonable amount to quickly template code snippets > because I use too many languages too infrequently to stay familiar with > any of them. > For trivial tasks it does quite well. > > More complex tasks I have found things like calls to non-existent > libraries. > suggestions to use programs that do not exist. > > For the most part by the time the problem gets to me, people have > exhausted google et al and, there is no ready answer out there on the > internet. > In this case what LLMs come back with are what could be a good answer > but for the fact that its wrong. > The problem is that they cannot say "I don't know about that". > > I will have to try the hand over a code snippet and ask what is wrong. > That does sound interesting. > > > -- > Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 > Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 > [email protected] || > > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56
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