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Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by kerpotgh »

jakear wrote: post #49
Jensson wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy flight tickets from Google, that is a relatively new product even if you buy them from the search result. So Google search is good at adding new products that are context sensitive to your query, I don't see why they couldn't make such things with a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers.

> a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers And kill their golden goose? Google makes more money the longer you spend on their ad-ridden search result pages. I don't doubt they'll make a question answering bot, but the real question is how they fund it (see edit above for my guess).

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Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

Gigachad wrote: post #29

Can they get gpt-3 to program a version of Teams that works?

To anyone fortunate to not have to use Teams, this is no joke - it's mind-bogglingly terrible. But I have noticed some unintentional humor, if I send a message like "ok, this isn't working, why don't I Slack you a Zoom link instead?" I get an immediate modal popping up, asking if I would answer two quick questions...

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

#53

Post by narrator »

cardosof wrote: post #8

Yup, this is it, this is the real life version of the beginning of the Manna story. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

He didn't anticipate that AI would require a huge amount of processing power and that AI safety would be such a huge problem.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

#54

Post by nmfisher »

narrator wrote: post #20

Could someone please compete with GPT-3? This is getting ridiculous how far ahead OpenAi is getting, despite Google probably having better tech. It seems nobody else has the big brass balls of the OpenAI guys to put a large language model out there and deal with the consequences. Yann LeCun is on Twitter saying this isn't a big deal[1], but where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? [1] https://twitter.co…

It's easy to look like you're "ahead" by constantly releasing shiny new things that aren't actually profitable.

Until OpenAI is generating billions in profit, I wouldn't be so quick to criticize the other big companies. Google in particular has a reputation[0] to defend - they're not going to risk their cash cow with a half-cocked LLM that spouts patent falsehoods half the time. Not to mention the false economics of losing money on every single search.

[0] - the reputation might be sullied amongst the HN crowd, but they're negligible when it comes to dominance of Google as a search engine for normies.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by swatcoder »

jakear wrote: post #49
Jensson wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy flight tickets from Google, that is a relatively new product even if you buy them from the search result. So Google search is good at adding new products that are context sensitive to your query, I don't see why they couldn't make such things with a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers.

> a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers And kill their golden goose? Google makes more money the longer you spend on their ad-ridden search result pages. I don't doubt they'll make a question answering bot, but the real question is how they fund it (see edit above for my guess).

A ChatGPT-like AI that's answering your question in the context of your recent search and browsing history can make a pretty darn sophisticated guess about what ads you might be primed to see.

But deploying something like that at scale not only means developing the consumer experience but also the ad placement platform that generates optimal revenue from it. It's not a thing to toss over the wall just because ChatGPT won some news cycles.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by riku_iki »

jakear wrote: post #49
Jensson wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy flight tickets from Google, that is a relatively new product even if you buy them from the search result. So Google search is good at adding new products that are context sensitive to your query, I don't see why they couldn't make such things with a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers.

> a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers And kill their golden goose? Google makes more money the longer you spend on their ad-ridden search result pages. I don't doubt they'll make a question answering bot, but the real question is how they fund it (see edit above for my guess).

> Google makes more money the longer you spend on their ad-ridden search result pages.

Chat bots also can very naturally embed advertisement:

btw, I think you would really love to check this related product which according to many reviews can help with the problem you just asked me about.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

#58

Post by shmerl »

jbm wrote: post #19

The real premium version of Microsoft Teams will be the one that doesn't crash my Google Chrome window every 30-45 minutes.

Or one that works in Firefox without disconnecting you at random when you try to make a video call or join a conference.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by runako »

jbm wrote: post #19

The real premium version of Microsoft Teams will be the one that doesn't crash my Google Chrome window every 30-45 minutes.

I don't use Teams as a daily driver, but I would be a candidate for a paid upgrade pack that made it have the polish one expects from an app built by a public company. In particular, the emoji are terrible.
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