dmwyatt

tao , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

One byproduct of playing around with #Python's matplotlib.pyplot library is that I can now rather easily create qualitative graphs to illustrate more informal relationships that I could previously only describe in words, or with a crudely drawn handwritten sketch. A workflow that I have found effective is to ask #ChatGPT for working code for a simplified example of what I want, and then I adapt and tweak the code until I get an output that matches what I had in mind. For instance, here is a graph I created this way (in a matter of minutes, after asking GPT at https://chatgpt.com/share/064ae58d-7400-4589-a027-d66a8a8a236e) to illustrate a point I made previously by text in https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/110250470289337319 : I have found AI assistance to be of limited use in my primary specialty of research mathematics, but it has greatly increased my capability in secondary tasks such as coding (or in producing graphs like this), while also bringing my capabilities on general tasks up to at least a beginner level of expertise. (For someone who is expert in programming, but has only a secondary specialization in mathematics, I would imagine the benefits of AI assistance would be somewhat reversed.)