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Re: Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search

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Post by mk_stjames »

hxugufjfjf wrote: post #39
tantalor wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You are a chat bot that rewrites Chrome extensions for other browsers...

You are a chat bot that rewrites Chrome extensions to firefox, how would you rewrite the following code? https://github.com/wong2/chat-gpt-google-extension To convert the code from the GitHub repository you provided into a format that is compatible with Firefox, the following steps could be taken: Replace instances of "chrome" with "browser" in the code. In the Chrome extension API, the "chrome" namespace is used to…

This is the same answer format of essentially any deep technical question I've given it.

Essentially:

1. Do the thing that is the first thing that is mentioned and that any first year student learning about thing hears about the thing.

2. Do some more complicated things in a hand-wavey manner that solves the problem.

3. Check to see the problem is solved. If it is not, do some more of the hand waving in step 2.

4. There may be other problems to check for in the future even if this solution works. Who knows! But I solved your problem.

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

ramraj07 wrote: post #52
Waterluvian wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I forget where I read this recently but a compelling point made was that this is fun as a nerd toy but to deploy it to something general like Google or Gmail would be overwhelmingly expensive. Reminds me of the, “so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.” joke from The Simpsons. Eventually it’ll be ridiculously cheap and easy to include anywhere.

I remember estimates of the worth of each search to Google being 10 cents on average. Google does run Bert on many if not all of its searches anyway? And let’s not forget that searching the entire internet is not cheap either! Google holds the entire index in memory and every search hit goes through thousands of machines to return your results. In other words, running chatGPT might not exactly be a problem for google…

The question is: how does Google monetize chatGPT results? If the answer is right there on the page, what’s the incentive for anyone to click on an ad?

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

freediver wrote: post #13

This is very creative. Thing to note is that this is not free (or at least it is likely not to be, OpenAI is charging for APIs). We are talking about ~1c per search looking at current GPT pricing (2c per ~750 words in/out). It is also indiscriminate deployed in this way, triggering for every search, even those that chatgpt will show suboptimal responses for, like 'starbucks near me', navigational queries like 'twitte…

If it’s possible, please create a family plan or regional pricing. I love Kagi but if I were to buy it for my entire family, the bill would be $600/year - more than a month of rent.

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search

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Post by jer0me »

leobg wrote: post #70

Does ChatGPT actually come with an official API as of now? Also, regarding that extension: Is that currently using the API key of the person who developed the extension? I believe OpenAI used to have a rule in their terms of service which forbids applications that essentially hand the reins of the API key owner over to third parties.

It uses your account. You have to login to OpenAI so it can make requests using your auth cookies.

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search

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Post by agilob »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #40
bko wrote: post #9

I started trying to use ChatGPT instead of google for a lot of my queries. The tricky part is unlearning how to search. For instance, I had a timestamp 2022-11-27 00:00:00.000 and wanted to display it in local string. The problem was (depending on your time zone) if you do new Date("2022-11-27 00:00:00.000").toLocaleString(), you get 11/26/2022 So I would have googled something like "pass timezone to toLocaleString",…

> The tricky part is unlearning how to search. Hum I'd argue that you've never learned how to search. I would have searched for "javascript date to string in specific timezone", and it would have given the following result, which is exactly what ChatGPT gives: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10087819/convert-date-to... Actually, if you already know that you can pass a timezone to toLocaleString(), I would just go…

Reading documentation instead clicking first SO link or writing 6 lines to a bot? You must be crazy!

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

throwaway82388 wrote: post #17
xjconlyme wrote: post #6

It’s interesting to see what’s Google’s next move. laMDA was also impressive.

Google seems to be holding back due to AI safety concerns, and the problems inherent in doing anything at Google scale. I’m curious to see if potential market competition will change that.

I reckon Google is holding back more because there’s no way to moentize this to the tune of $150B/year.

No initiative can get implemented at a large publicly traded company if it doesn’t contribute to the bottomline in some meaningful way eventually. And this thing might actually hurt the bottomline. No bueno.

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search

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Post by akiselev »

Beaver117 wrote: post #61
Waterluvian wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google’s search of “the entire internet” is lacking more and more every year. It’s probably not true at all anymore. It’s probably “the sliver of the Internet we prefer you interacted with.” Any time I search these days I’m amazed at how you can exhaust the search in 1-2 pages before you get to “related hits.”

Yeah, it's clearly lacking. Either de-indexing many pages or just blocking them from the results, even when I use double quotes. Then I go to Yandex or something and voila, it pops right up. I'm not sure I care enough to pay for Kagi but there's something very wrong with Google (and DDG, and Bing, etc)

It’s definitely deindexing pages. It’s been years since I’ve been able to locate one of my old HN rants via Google Search when it used to be the first result. Before all I had to use was my username + a politician’s name that I’ve only ever used once. After looking up the comment with Algolia and adding more keywords directly from the post, Google just gives up

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search

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Post by Oxidation »

alvarezbjm-hn wrote: post #65
david_allison wrote: post #63

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I was served maybe 60-80% spam from Google around 10 months ago (now resolved). The results you see can be significantly different from what others see. Sample from 10 months ago: https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT.jpg

In that resolution, the picture is almost a blurr.

If you're on mobile, Imgur doesn't allow you to view a high resolution version. You have to copy the image URL and then adjust the maxwidth query parameter:

https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...

Because who would want to be able to see the whole image?

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