ChatGPT: how Google dies

[neurosis]

Well, looks like the techies are going to be screwed sooner than we thought.  

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

In one of their ads, there was a girl (wearing all white). A true 10 body. Stunning curves.

Trying to find her. They change up their ads.

Stopped my reading dead in my tracks. 

[mowens]

Well, looks like the techies are going to be screwed sooner than we thought.  

Aren't we part of the techies?

[neurosis]

Aren't we part of the techies?

Maybe, but most of us are on the lower end of the techie spectrum.   I think that our jobs are safe for at least a little while.

[BrianP.]

Maybe, but most of us are as old as dirt.   I think that our jobs are safe for at least a little while.

Free fiss. 😁

[crazy^millman]

Emastercam got ChatGPT by someone this weekend. Skylar Roberts

[Surface]

I tried ChatGPT last night for planning a vacation this summer. Awesome!

Prompts included things like:
1. Driving itinerary for Scotland in July. 7 days.
2. Include two distilleries and two castles.
3. Give drive times.
4. Stay at Marriott hotels
5. Less diving on distillery days.

What would have taken hours of research was reduced to minutes.

[TylerBeer]

I tried ChatGPT last night for planning a vacation this summer. Awesome!

Prompts included things like:
1. Driving itinerary for Scotland in July. 7 days.
2. Include two distilleries and two castles.
3. Give drive times.
4. Stay at Marriott hotels
5. Less diving on distillery days.

What would have taken hours of research was reduced to minutes.

That's a GREAT use of it

[crazy^millman]

I tried ChatGPT last night for planning a vacation this summer. Awesome!

Prompts included things like:
1. Driving itinerary for Scotland in July. 7 days.
2. Include two distilleries and two castles.
3. Give drive times.
4. Stay at Marriott hotels
5. Less diving on distillery days.

What would have taken hours of research was reduced to minutes.

That is my wife's favorite thing to do when we go anywhere. She has a Degree in Tourism so not even thinking about not letting her do what she enjoys. I frustrate her and our kids on trips because I see a detour I think we should do and away we go. In Austria we ended up at the Castle that was seen in the background of the sound of music. We were heading to Salzburg from Italy along the 159 and I turned around and it was cool to see the Burg Hohenwrfen Castle. We have been to things long route 66 that are not even there anymore. Been to Quebec and many other places driving that had AI decided for us we would have never seen.

[YoDoug]

I am working on a new universal robot interface to send data from the Okuma control to the ABB robot through Modbus TCP. Our existing interfaces limit the data from 0 to 1000. That has worked but it puts a limit on the values of the common variables. The data from the Okuma is .NET 64 bit double precision value. One simple question to GPT got me a C# function to convert the double value into a 64 bit 2's compliment bit array for sending. Once in the ABB the 64bit 2's compliment can be easily converted back to it's original singed decimal form as an analog input.

As a programming tool for novice or moderate level programmers, ChatGPT is a real game changer.

[TylerBeer]

I am working on a new universal robot interface to send data from the Okuma control to the ABB robot through Modbus TCP. Our existing interfaces limit the data from 0 to 1000. That has worked but it puts a limit on the values of the common variables. The data from the Okuma is .NET 64 bit double precision value. One simple question to GPT got me a C# function to convert the double value into a 64 bit 2's compliment bit array for sending. Once in the ABB the 64bit 2's compliment can be easily converted back to it's original singed decimal form as an analog input.

As a programming tool for novice or moderate level programmers, ChatGPT is a real game changer.

Does Okuma have an option for ProfiNET or Ethernet/IP? ModbusTCP is great for a lot of things but if you were making a universal interface for a machine tool to a robot, having the option for a deterministic fieldbus is nice, not to mention better string handling

[YoDoug]

Does Okuma have an option for ProfiNET or Ethernet/IP? ModbusTCP is great for a lot of things but if you were making a universal interface for a machine tool to a robot, having the option for a deterministic fieldbus is nice, not to mention better string handling

It's a C# app running in Windows using the Okuma API and a free ModbusTCP library (http://easymodbustcp.net/en/). There is actually a PLC in the middle that the app is writing to registers using the ModbusTCP Library, then the PLC acts as a master to the ABB's EEIP Anybus slave. The people that wrote the Modbus library have a EEIP library I could use but I also use the data in the PLC as it is the master for the cells.

[TylerBeer]

Gotcha -  I had done some similar things and used easymodbus & pymodbus , and then my time programming couldn't beat the cost of proper control software https://inductiveautomation.com/ - Ignition being the best bang for buck in that regard - the diagnostics alone are worth it, especially with modbus.  if you have a siemens or allen bradley control it's an even bigger no brainer

[YoDoug]

Gotcha -  I had done some similar things and used easymodbus & pymodbus , and then my time programming couldn't beat the cost of proper control software https://inductiveautomation.com/ - Ignition being the best bang for buck in that regard - the diagnostics alone are worth it, especially with modbus.  if you have a siemens or allen bradley control it's an even bigger no brainer

I'll have to check that out. We have TMAC From Caron engineering in a few of our machines. They use Beckhoff controls and they have a nice web server interface you can access from any pc on the network. I have been looking into using one of those in lieu of the PLC's I use now.

[TylerBeer]

Beckhoff stuff is great  - I wanted to use it for a machine we just finished, but it was a year out for hardware.