This is your reminder that while AI is a great tool, you should always double-check the information it gives you. I do like that ChatGPT will now give you its sources so you can go right to the original websites where it got its data from, but in some cases, it doesn't and you have to ask for them. Always ask for them! I recently had one of my televisions die, and it's a big TV (65 in), so I wanted to know if it was okay to put it at the curb with the regular garbage or if I had to take it somewhere special. I asked ChatGPT this, and you know how sometimes it gives you two responses and wants you to pick the better one? Well, I'm glad I did because both responses had conflicting information in them. So, I will just let you see the screenshots exactly as they are from ChatGPT.
Needless to say, I did put the TV out with the garbage, and they didn't take it the next day, so I'm happy about that. But always, always check AI sources.
But it's not just AI; it's Google too. Back before AI was a big thing, people used to Google questions all the time. Google doesn't always give you authoritative sources first; they give you popular sources based on their page rank. So you could ask a question, let's say about a particular herb or some medicine or something, and it might take you to a wackadoo conspiracy theory website just because it's popular, but it's got crazy information on it.
The same thing goes with news. Make sure you get your news from reputable news sites. I guess one of the good things from science class in high school, and if you took it in college, is that learning science makes you a good bullshit detector. If something doesn't seem logical, it's probably bullshit.
Thomas Gonder
@Reply 15 months ago
Here's a good example of what I was working on today with ChatGPT. I have a menu form, it "spawns" jobs which can be forms and reports, and all the other stuff including hybrids (like a report that needs parameters from a parameter form that runs before the report). I don't want the menu form to close if there are jobs still open. A year ago, I found it easy to do forms and reports, to see if there were any open. But it got crazier with macros, tables and queries. Off to ChatGPT. You can see how it took iterations to get to where I wanted, but it's amazing how ChatGPT could "learn" what I was finding out from its solutions that didn't quite work. It gave me a better understanding of dealing with access objects.
It's not perfect (double counts a current object--but as Richard would say, "It's good enough"). I'm adding my own tweaks to fine-tune, tweaks that wouldn't work outside the ADS (like ignoring the menu form in the count). Enjoy:
I could add that I'm in total awe how ChatGPT did that. It had to take ideas from others and reassemble them into something that works. I've written complicated code for over 40 years, but the logic behind that AI thread boggles my mind. I wouldn't know where to start.
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