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I don't understand these comparisons between crypto and generative AI models. The AI models just seem so clearly and instantly more useful to me.

> useful to me. To you yes. Now go out in the real world in which most people don't work in an office and mostly use internet for entertainment Crypto seemed very useful to many people, and they still do, you'll find thousand upon thousands of comments and this very website preaching cryptos as the next game changer

Crypto looked useful as long as the price kept going up. Everyone likes free money.

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Can someone please write an HN browser extension or something that just hides anythign related to GPT?

I could, but I won't, because you're clearly not understanding how big a deal this is

Understanding "what a big deal it is" != literally half the home page being freaking AI posts every day, most of which are just bloviating.

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Chatgpt certainly spits out answers and is often right or reasonably close to right. But it cant be trusted on complex tasks and I do not think it is a good AI, I have to repeat, this thing is supposed to be an AI,but it does the AI part very poorly.

We all know it will trip over questions like what is the record for crossing the atlantic by car/foot and such.

But I have realized there is no feedback loop, or a wrong one.

Having asked the same questions a few days apart, both literally and almost the same wording, they were on the topics probability and ev math, but no trick questions...I was shocked to see it spits out completely different results based on what day I had asked or based on the sentence structure provided.

These are the hard AI problems and this does not look good. No terminator any time soon , I guess.

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It should also be noted that ChatGPT is pretty good with mermaid diagrams. It can convert a description of relationships into mermaid, and given a mermaid diagram can convert that into prose. I’ve briefly described a database application and asked it to generate an ERD in Mermaid. I’ve also taken a Mermaid ERD and asked it to generate documentation for that. Try these things, you might be amazed!

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> useful to me. To you yes. Now go out in the real world in which most people don't work in an office and mostly use internet for entertainment Crypto seemed very useful to many people, and they still do, you'll find thousand upon thousands of comments and this very website preaching cryptos as the next game changer

Crypto looked useful as long as the price kept going up. Everyone likes free money.

That was the crass money-making part of it, but a lot of nerds earnestly believe(d) that cryptocurrencies would have massive world-changing consequences. I think it's increasingly obvious that there's little rational or empirical basis for such belief.

With AI, the biggest claims I see are overwhelmingly from people who are not doing cutting-edge work in the field, who have no real foundation for a belief that these AIs will continue to improve at a dramatic rate. Because to really change the world, they do need to get a lot better.

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My therapist hadn't heard of it yet so I just showed her this (asked it to suggest a CBT therapy program given some patient parameters) and her mind was blown. Especially the effortless creation of an Edgar Allan Poe poem version of it: https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/90f726b409d8c08ecf750288228...

You used your session to show her cool stuff on the internet?

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I'm trying to understand how big of a deal ChatGPT and the like is or isn't. Even people in AI don't seem to agree on whether it's going to change everything or it's overhyped and not a major advancement. Which is it? Or somewhere in the middle? "if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm findi…

IMO it's analogous to adaptive cruise control on cars. It's very useful in certain specific circumstances, and genuinely helpful. But not yet necessary or transformative unless you live in LA/sit in traffic for a living.

People are claiming to use it to write code, I'm curious how sophisticated said code is. Sure it might take out of some of the grunt work, like an ultra-sophisticated find-and-replace, but you still have to review all the changes it makes and correct any mistakes so the only thing it really saves is the typing. There's no way you could ask it to write code for a sophisticated architecture without extensive training on said architecture, and I'm not sure how you would even train it for that (can it parse design documents? Diagrams?)

The "Look, AI is replacing creative work first, the thing we thought was most immune to AI!" narrative annoys me. IMO it's just yet another factor revealing how little people value "creative" work. There's a reason relatively simplistic Marvel movies make the big bucks and the erudite starving author/artist is a meme. The market does not appreciate creativity for its own sake, and never has. No one cares about the reincarnation of William Shakespeare if he' s using all his talent to write blogspam. No one cares about Monet's ghost's DeviantArt anime titty drawings. People care about creativity because it's a requirement to produce something new and useful, that use can be pragmatic or symbolic, but if it's neither no one cares and the AI-generated equivalent is good enough.

You want to see AI-proof creativity (at least currently available AI)? Look at any luxury automobile interior. Look at any sophisticated software/hardware architecture. Look at an aircraft carrier or any other item where there aren't millions of samples to train on. That's not to say AI couldn't contribute to the tools that make these things, but no one working on the above is losing their job to AI any time soon. It's just taking out some of the low-hanging creative fruit. Maybe it's the start of an all-consuming revolution, or maybe this is as far as it goes. Only time will tell, but I've seen enough false revolutions (self-driving cars, AI advertising, crypto) to not buy in until I see hard data of it doing something more than writing convincing youtube intros and being used to cheat on high school essays. If the tools turn out to produce genuine value, then I'll learn how to use them to maximum effect at my job. Nothing to get wound up about either way.

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I use chatgpt to write code. If it gets a bit better and can connected to an editor to create files, update existing files developer productivity will go through the roof

I already fear my productivity drop when OpenAI finally takes ChatGPT offline.

What sorts of things are you using it (successfully) for? I've gotten it to write a script or two for me, but it feels like usually I have to type out so much context (or domain/business knowledge) that it doesn't end up saving much effort.
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