Topic: Research and teach us something new about our field
- One of the things that I think has been fascinating for me is to see a dominant player like Google whom in my lifetime I assumed to continue to be dominant and be one of the top players in its space, completely do a 180 and re-assess its situation after the release of chatGPT. Now this does not come as a surprise to me as the tech space moves quite quickly and the prime example I use to explain to others is “Intel”. Back in the 80’s and 90’s Intel was untouchable in its space, and fast forward to today Intel is struggling to compete with the likes of TSMC, and AMD to manufacture and sell their own hardware.
- Now Google has always reigned king, and growing up its even become a meme for my generation to say: “Why would you ever use Bing search”? So to see this giant really stress and make push for AI in 2023 is fascinating and also very cool to see progress in this space happen. I think one of the coolest things is to see Microsoft actually invest in chatGPT and try to implement the tech in its existing suite of software(s). Now this is not to say that Google is slacking or behind as demonstrated from their demo for BARD (their own AI implementation).
- I think what is very interesting to me is to see the barriers of entry to learn and grow shrink. In my parents generation the only way to immerse yourself in knowledge was to read, attend lectures, have discussions. And within my generation I saw that go from reading to watching YouTube lectures on subjects to understand and grasp the knowledge. However with AI implementation we might not even need to search in the near future and I have found this to be incredibly interesting as well as make me want to learn more in the CS space.
- For example prior to AI implementation of chatGPT if I ran across an issue in my code, a console error, any type of bug it might take me a couple hours of reading stack overflow forums, random geeksforgeeks articles and any type of YouTube video I might find by searching for key terms in my quest to answer my question. However I have found that if I feed my questions for debugging into chatGPT this increases my productivity as well as my motivation to get more work done. For example instead of being stuck frustrated at a bug for hours to find a simple solution online, I might just ask chatGPT about this type of bug or error log. And surprisingly to me most of the time chatGPT will reply a couple bullets and I will have tried 90% of them. The last 10% is usually my answer and unblocks me from whatever I am doing. This has increased my productivity, made me want to explore and try newer things with coding without the stresses of getting stuck and lose motivation to finish side-projects. I don’t believe in asking chatGPT to code something for you but to un-block you from situations like this has made me find a new-passion in coding.
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