I know this may seem pretty sad and pathetic, but for me, in the space of just a couple of days using it, I'm already finding it drastically increasing my confidence both on and off it. It really is like having a new friend (/personal assistant/tutor/therapist) that is completely non-judgmental.
For instance, I was asking it to walk me through, using pseudocode, the creation of a simple neural network, and not only could I change the specification on the fly to my heart's content, ie add x neurons, connected as such etc, I could also ask questions to to my heart's content, no matter how small, like explain this function or variable. If I asked so many questions on something like StackOverflow, a Q&A site for programmers, I'd be laughed off the site, but here I'm free to drill in to the problem from any angle at any level of detail, and if necessary ad nauseum until I get it. I just think it's going to revolutionise the way I learn.
The other thing that's interesting, related to the above, is that it also helps to indirectly identify all those social aspects that would usually influence me, eg like the proverbial kid afraid to put his hand up in class, since there is a real tendency, for me at least, to anthropomorphize it, so when talking to it find myself instinctually still doing those sorts of things, but in becoming more aware of them when using ChatGPT, and learning to detach from them in the context of talking to ChatGPT where it obviously makes no sense, I hope and think there will be some spill-over into the real world, at least more self-awareness in that regard if nothing else.
For instance, I was asking it to walk me through, using pseudocode, the creation of a simple neural network, and not only could I change the specification on the fly to my heart's content, ie add x neurons, connected as such etc, I could also ask questions to to my heart's content, no matter how small, like explain this function or variable. If I asked so many questions on something like StackOverflow, a Q&A site for programmers, I'd be laughed off the site, but here I'm free to drill in to the problem from any angle at any level of detail, and if necessary ad nauseum until I get it. I just think it's going to revolutionise the way I learn.
The other thing that's interesting, related to the above, is that it also helps to indirectly identify all those social aspects that would usually influence me, eg like the proverbial kid afraid to put his hand up in class, since there is a real tendency, for me at least, to anthropomorphize it, so when talking to it find myself instinctually still doing those sorts of things, but in becoming more aware of them when using ChatGPT, and learning to detach from them in the context of talking to ChatGPT where it obviously makes no sense, I hope and think there will be some spill-over into the real world, at least more self-awareness in that regard if nothing else.
