Just opening up the topic to the group, as our staff was discussing an apparent AI that posted here.
My real life job is, "Cybersecurity Analyst." That means I work with viruses and other fun malware and the havok they cause. Before that, I was a computer tech. That generally meant working with broken hardware or software. I have limited experience coding. I could probably fool someone into thinking that I have HTML or Javascript skills. I did have some BASIC coding chops ... about 40 years ago.
There's a maxim that says that ANY repetitive computer task can be programmed. When ChatGPT was publicly available, a few months back, I checked out ChatGPT to see if it really could either help me with some of my repetitive tasks. It has literally blown me away:
"Chat, I'm going to give you a bunch of URLs. I want you to strip 'http://' and 'https://' from each, then add this tiny bit of known-good code. Here's an example of what I'd like the output to look like: [example]."
"No problem. Here's your output."
I've also had some great success at having ChatGPT spit out some Python code to work with an API (application programming interface) for a website to work at checking malware samples automagically. The only thing that limits me is that I need to be able to describe properly what I want. That sometimes takes a few attempts.
ChatGPT and other AIs are not perfect. I've had a few instances where ChatGPT has spat out some code that just doesn't work and it's bad enough that I can see why it doesn't work. That can also be educational, though.
So, anyone else using ChatGPT or another AI? Anyone else try the new ChatGPT-fortified Bing search engine?
My real life job is, "Cybersecurity Analyst." That means I work with viruses and other fun malware and the havok they cause. Before that, I was a computer tech. That generally meant working with broken hardware or software. I have limited experience coding. I could probably fool someone into thinking that I have HTML or Javascript skills. I did have some BASIC coding chops ... about 40 years ago.
There's a maxim that says that ANY repetitive computer task can be programmed. When ChatGPT was publicly available, a few months back, I checked out ChatGPT to see if it really could either help me with some of my repetitive tasks. It has literally blown me away:
"Chat, I'm going to give you a bunch of URLs. I want you to strip 'http://' and 'https://' from each, then add this tiny bit of known-good code. Here's an example of what I'd like the output to look like: [example]."
"No problem. Here's your output."
I've also had some great success at having ChatGPT spit out some Python code to work with an API (application programming interface) for a website to work at checking malware samples automagically. The only thing that limits me is that I need to be able to describe properly what I want. That sometimes takes a few attempts.
ChatGPT and other AIs are not perfect. I've had a few instances where ChatGPT has spat out some code that just doesn't work and it's bad enough that I can see why it doesn't work. That can also be educational, though.
So, anyone else using ChatGPT or another AI? Anyone else try the new ChatGPT-fortified Bing search engine?