ChatGPT Is at the Peak of the Hype Cycle
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ChatGPT Is at the Peak of the Hype Cycle
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#2You know what's even more over-hyped is GPT-4. Sam Altman recently stated that many people will be disappointed because of all of the rumours that it's AGI.
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#3Nowhere a trace of some kind of reasoning there to be found. It's just a gut feeling, or some would say trolling.
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#4Less overhyped than crypto. Fewer lost fortunes as well
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#5I've been trying to use ChatGPT productively by asking it instead of looking up docs or search Duck Duck Go.
I'm becoming more and more disillusioned. I was sceptical at first, then thoroughly impressed by all the blog posts, but actually using it is extremely frustrating. It's really good at composing answers that look plausible, but it just has no idea what you want.
The only thing it is truly good at is composing unnecessarily verbose responses to spam emails.
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#6If you were to take a handful of trending tech from the past decade, and plot peak hype against utility, I'd wager ChatGPT and related technologies would rank pretty favourably. Crypto and VR have gone through similar hype cycles but the utility falls short.
ChatGPT has it's shortcomings, but I've found myself returning to it over and over again. Then consider what this technology will look like in a few years time and the conclusion is that, imo, the hype is justified.
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#7I've been trying to use ChatGPT productively by asking it instead of looking up docs or search Duck Duck Go. I'm becoming more and more disillusioned. I was sceptical at first, then thoroughly impressed by all the blog posts, but actually using it is extremely frustrating. It's really good at composing answers that look plausible, but it just has no idea what you want. The only thing it is truly good at is composing…
I’ve had the opposite experience. While at times it’s just wrong, it’s usually been pretty right even when I loosely phrase my request and ask it things Kagi or other IR systems wouldn’t be able to grok into meaningful results. Often it’s responses are also direct and succinct (even with all its boilerplate blah blah) and faster to process than clicking through 50 blogs and navigating SEO garbage, or distilling documentation to find the specific answer I need from it. Where it is insufficient it provides enough context and relevant search terms to construct a better IR query on a search engine.
I have definitely had it get stuff just flat out wrong, but it’s easy enough to pick it out and I degenerate to old practice of searching and filtering in those cases.
As has been posted about here many times in different ways, as they graft IR and reasoning systems onto chatgpt I expect these problems to disappear. I find it amazing how dismissive folks are of a tech that is barely a few months old. It’s like a whole generation of nerds have lost the capacity to dream.
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#8Hype has no bounds, similar to the intrusiveness of ads on this site.
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#9A lot of people outside of tech haven't heard of it yet. It is absolutely going to get overhyped but I would say it is currently underhyped and if you think this is hype then you're going to have a fun 2023.
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#10I've been trying to use ChatGPT productively by asking it instead of looking up docs or search Duck Duck Go. I'm becoming more and more disillusioned. I was sceptical at first, then thoroughly impressed by all the blog posts, but actually using it is extremely frustrating. It's really good at composing answers that look plausible, but it just has no idea what you want. The only thing it is truly good at is composing…
I had this feeling too, so I began feeding text from my documents and videos into the same GPT engine.
It results in much more relevant and grounded answers(well... grounded to whatever you documents claim, for better or worse). If you want to try it, there's a demo at fragen.co.uk