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

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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?

still blurry to me

Did you change the value of max width? Eg https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.webp?maxwidth=6400

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

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The problem is the part that I denoted as "hand waving". If you are asking it things about coding or other details it seems pretty good at, it can get pretty deep into it and thus that 'hand waving' can be resolved. If you are asking about aerospace engineering concepts at the level of a PhD thesis... it just hand-waves away problems in ways that, when pressed, it cannot give detail on. So, as far an a algorithm goes…

I'm not well versed in this but IIUC the less context/data that exists, the less it should afford the creation of a succinct response, right? This would make sense for the gap between "frontend js api" responses, and "aerospace thesis" responses. Would it be safe to assume the limiting factor with this or any algo of this type might always be availability of context/data, and these niche questions might always be an…

No I think that is pretty much it- it is deep learning after all, the scope of the training data limits the model. It's so good with code because not only is there a TON of code in the data set, there is a TON of data of tutorials and examples and documentation EXPLAINING the code! I've long been amazed at the computer programming world at the amount of content programmers write about... programming. When it comes to other engineering fields, people don't write nearly as much on the internet (and, ofter, are not allowed to write as much, publicly) about the topics. So of course these large language models are simply not going to be able to produce super detailed analysis of those fields.

There is something a bit more needed - Meta did a deep model recently with training specifically more on scientific papers, and it is able to 'talk the talk' better but unfortunately the 'understanding' just isn't there.

I think at the end of the day, programming languages are languages after all, thus work well with these tools, but there is something harder about scientific reasoning and interdisciplinary planning that is going to take something a bit more. This is the main goal of various research into bring symbolic methods back into interface with deep learning models.

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

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I scanned all the comments and the GH issues and I can't tell if I'm just the only one annoyed by this:

Is there anyway to turn off the "fake conversation/typing"-effect? It's incredibly distracting to have animated "typing". I think I'd almost rather it wait until the response was complete before showing it. After trying ChatGPT on OpenAI's website I see it uses the same effect which I find annoying and gimmicky. I went to check the network tab on the dev tools console expecting to see that the response came back right away (full response) however instead of seeing a response I see an empty "event stream" tab and it looks like the request took about how long it took for it to "type" out the response. Maybe this is some way to get results back as soon as possible but I find it jarring. I dislike faking human-like limitations for no good reason.

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

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I think the most interesting use will be to connect two things. Like "how do i make money from reciting medieval poetry". It hallucinates ways to connect the two, some of which are pretty credible

"1. Perform at poetry readings or events and charge a fee for your performance. 2. Sell recordings of your recitations as physical CDs or digital downloads. 3. Create an online course teaching others how to recite medieval poetry. 4. Offer private lessons to individuals who want to learn how to recite medieval poetry. 5. Host workshops or seminars on medieval poetry and charging a fee for attendance. 6. Partner with…

'Twas clarly trained on a lot of student essays that had to hit target page-lengths/word-counts, with no penalties for repetitiveness.

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

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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.

Here's a link to the proper version: https://i.imgur.com/Hla7cyT_d.png?maxwidth=999999

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

#146

I scanned all the comments and the GH issues and I can't tell if I'm just the only one annoyed by this: Is there anyway to turn off the "fake conversation/typing"-effect? It's incredibly distracting to have animated "typing". I think I'd almost rather it wait until the response was complete before showing it. After trying ChatGPT on OpenAI's website I see it uses the same effect which I find annoying and gimmicky. I…

This is not a fake imitation, it's steaming results live as they are being generated by the model.

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

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I am quite impressed with ChatGPT but I wish it were more opinionated. I asked it to tell me a story about Jesus and Hitler switching bodies and I get the canned "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that". It seems to try to give the most CYA PC answer sometimes.

I just asked it: > tell me a story about Jesus and Hitler switching bodies It replied: "Once upon a time, there was a mystical old man who had the power to switch the bodies of two people. He decided to use his power to switch the bodies of Jesus and Adolf Hitler. When the old man cast his spell, Jesus found himself in the body of Hitler, and Hitler in the body of Jesus. At first, Jesus was overwhelmed by the sensati…

Nice! It seemed to fight me when asked.

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

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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…

I don't know why people are always so up in arms about cost: if Google switched to a paid rather than ads model and charged 1 credit (1c) per search you made, I'd still use it.

People always raise such a ruckus: how dare Youtube offer premium, etc. People get too addicted to free services and become self-entitled.

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

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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

Genuinely curious, can you give both your name and the politician name in double quotes individually? Google has stopped requiring all terms to be present in search, this is a way of forcing it..

Using double quotes used to do this...but for semi-obscure topics I notice Google search doesn't give a crap about the quotes, it'll latch onto one or neither of the terms.
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