AI/GPT is a genius idiot slave

 I use AI/GPT as my genius idiot slave. 

Very pedantic. Obedient. Hard working. Great memory. 

Unable to understand the context.

It works. 

You must know HOW to ask,

how to evaluate the answer, 

AND you need patience.

So, what works great for me? 

Search and summarize a very general question, a book, a movie, a problem.

Correct my spelling, find synonyms, antonyms, rephrase text.

Write standard software code.

What doesn't work: solve a niche software problem, invent a new solution to a new problem, find a niche book, especially not published in English.

 

My basic example of tonight: I had a very niche problem: 'check if the value of an Excel cell is N/A or ""'

GPT4 was not able to solve it. Excel has a weird way to evaluate expressions and errors, so the simple solution always returns N/A, instead of True or False.