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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

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OpenAI, at least in my day-day workflow for the last 9+ months has so superseded anything that google ever was to me that I'm having a difficult time comparing the two. I've got a monitor dedicated 100% of the time to ChatGPT, and I interact with it non stop during the flow of technical scenarios and troubleshooting situations that flow into me - working in areas that I have the slimmest of backgrounds in, and shutti…

This has been my experience too

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

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Are you able to give a specific example of a problem it helped you solve? Especially one that you were at a complete blocking point, it provided some solution, and then you were able to continue to expand upon that solution. I keep reading responses like yours, but I haven't seen any specific examples of problems being solved, so it all sounds very abstract. In my interactions with ChatGPT, it felt like just interact…

One of my clients has their own instance of ChatGPT running. It is running on dedicated hardware, is trained on different data, and we can change the core prompts with relative ease. We even get to tune some temperature coefficient, which adjusts whether the LLM behaves in a creative or factual way. This is because the client in question is in a regulated industry. This week, we used it a bunch of times to help rephr…

Be careful, not sure what you are self hosting there but the last paragraph sounds like a good way to start working on a task the LLM imagined

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

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You can start by paying $20 for ChatGPT 4 and try it on tasks where you're familiar with the subject matter. I've tried it and I've been amazed.

Please, please, reference the tasks or chats that were especially impressive. For example, trying to get chat gpt to do something very simple for my work, like implementing a convolution it took me in circles and circles. It gets the general idea right, sure. But it actually makes significant minor errors that ended up being more confusing than helpful.

I asked GPT-4 to implement a convolution layer in Numpy, including backpropagation. It produced correct, working code within ~15 minutes of prompting. Are you sure you used GPT-4?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you able to give a specific example of a problem it helped you solve? Especially one that you were at a complete blocking point, it provided some solution, and then you were able to continue to expand upon that solution. I keep reading responses like yours, but I haven't seen any specific examples of problems being solved, so it all sounds very abstract. In my interactions with ChatGPT, it felt like just interact…

I'm surprised that nobody on HN seems to point to or mention bing chat. It is based on GPT, it is much better than free GPT 3.5 and it is free as well. I use it plenty of times and more than 90 percent of the time answers are exact and code just works as is. You just ask it extra questions about how it works and it explains it in as much detail as you possibly need, until you fully understand. Then you ask it to rewr…

Until your comment, I had been using Chat GPT 3.5. Not only is Bing Chat more accurate (GPT 4 based) but it also provides footnotes to allow you to reference the sources for more specific information.

The code snippets tend to be bloated, but no worse than an intern would produce. A quick refactor, adding edge case handling and the code is ready to test and commit.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

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post #119
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can start by paying $20 for ChatGPT 4 and try it on tasks where you're familiar with the subject matter. I've tried it and I've been amazed.

Please, please, reference the tasks or chats that were especially impressive. For example, trying to get chat gpt to do something very simple for my work, like implementing a convolution it took me in circles and circles. It gets the general idea right, sure. But it actually makes significant minor errors that ended up being more confusing than helpful.

Give me your prompt. I'll paste the output from ChatGPT4.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

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ChatGPT has already saved me from hours of Googling when I'm trying to find out how to do certain things. It almost feels magical - I don't have to read through half-dozen slightly different variations of what I need to do. Before ChatGPT, to find the answer to things like "how do I set up Gunicorn to run as a daemon that restarts when it fails" I would have to endure hours of googling, snarky stack-overflow comments…

Well you're no longer "solo" as an entrepreneur. It's like hiring an indefatigable intern to do all the research and lashing together somewhat useful code, solutions, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

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I've replaced 90% of my google searches in a day with ChatGPT sessions, I dont expect the AGI apocalypse, but I do expect that OpenAI will attain something like google level corporate juggernaut status.

What used to take me several Google searches and reading a dozen linked pages, can now be done with a well crafted sentence. The footnotes in Bing are good for validation of sources.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

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I think both Bitcoin and ChatGPT are revolutionary. I use Bitcoin regularly, because I live in a third world country where it's really hard not to get your salary seized. I use ChatGPT every day for lots of things and it has replaced Google search for me. And StackOverflow, of course. Notice how I said BITCOIN and CHATGPT. Not "crypto" and "ai".

Can you elaborate on "where it's really hard not to get your salary seized."? How and why?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?

#130

OpenAI, at least in my day-day workflow for the last 9+ months has so superseded anything that google ever was to me that I'm having a difficult time comparing the two. I've got a monitor dedicated 100% of the time to ChatGPT, and I interact with it non stop during the flow of technical scenarios and troubleshooting situations that flow into me - working in areas that I have the slimmest of backgrounds in, and shutti…

I'd pay money to watch someone like you work. Like other responders, I've tried using chatgpt multiple times, and very often when I've used it for tasks where I was familiar with the subject matter, I was disappointed in the results. It's possible I haven't learned the proper way to get what I need from it and would love to learn how others are using it to solve real problems. I mean it. I'd pay money to watch stream…

use chatgpt for trivial and boring/common problems instead as long as it saves you time from boilerplate work
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