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Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

jackbrookes wrote: post #19

Give it access to a Python repl, show it how to send HTTP requests, how to take look at images of webpages if it needs to, and how to spawn new instances of itself - give it a budget and tell it to make money for you.

I don't want to underplay how much you've hit the nail on the head here, but...

Commenters in AI safety discussions: "Just keep the AI in a box, don't give it internet access, unplug it if you don't like what it says, and it really can't hurt you!"

Commenters in AI product discussions: "How quickly can we give it unrestricted access to the web, $50k to freely play with, and a highly underspecified objective?"

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by throwawaytemp29 »

cjdoc29 wrote: post #6
yosito wrote: post #2

I've got a thread going with ChatGPT about an app I'm building. It knows all of the libraries I'm using, and has seen the main App component, the Router and many of the key components. I'm asking it about every task I need to do, feature I need to implement, bug I need to fix. Basically rubber ducking with it and talking through everything I'm doing as if it were my coworker. It's reducing my time to solve problems b…

So I have yet to use ChatGPT (I know, I know), but are you able to keep long running threads with it? How does it know context about your app? Are you simply copying and pasting code? This is really cool to hear about.

You can run into issues with long running threads. It only has so much context (I think around 4K words). It doesn’t have all the context of all the thread. My understanding is that it is summarizing the thread and resubmitting it as part of the prompt each time.

It took me a while to figure out why it kept forgetting things from earlier in the thread.

I’m looking forward to when you can have a bigger context or explicitly set some sort of context that is persistent.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by sharemywin »

lapama wrote: post #7

Write my PhD thesis, even incorporating the written and oral feedback of my advisor, which I record and use as input. Yes it was a bad joke, one I did not think I could make just 1 year earlier.

don't forget about the made up data

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by macrolocal »

woeirua wrote: post #18

Call center employees are pretty much as good as gone once the price comes down on GPT4. You can pretty easily give it a good prompt that allows it to answer very specific questions about your company, or interact with external APIs to schedule services, make changes based on the customer's requests, etc. Throw some Speech to Text and Text to Speech services in front and behind it, and voila you have an AI receptioni…

I bet GPT-4 could more effectively maintain that 0.002 cents equals 0.002 dollars.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by ipaddr »

woeirua wrote: post #18

Call center employees are pretty much as good as gone once the price comes down on GPT4. You can pretty easily give it a good prompt that allows it to answer very specific questions about your company, or interact with external APIs to schedule services, make changes based on the customer's requests, etc. Throw some Speech to Text and Text to Speech services in front and behind it, and voila you have an AI receptioni…

Don't you have that exactly today where everyone presses 0? People call because they want a human.. otherwise the website can provide those answers.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by [deleted] »

lwansbrough wrote: post #30
dandelany wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am dreading the inevitable future day when I have to argue about a denied health insurance claim on the phone with a fucking robot prompted to make it as difficult as possible for me to win.

Why would you do that when you can dispatch your own AI to argue for you?

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Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by finder83 »

Mostly code here, but I've found a few uses, mostly around brainstorming that I use as a starting point to further thought:

Brainstorming ideas such as around a party theme for my kids. Games we can play, decorations, etc.

Generating exercise ideas, particularly since I don't much like gyms or common methods

Helped me to understand some medical side effects of thyroid issues and the medicine I'm taking. Actually I learned from it that Iron interferes with my medicine, and I was taking vitamins at the same time as I was taking it. Seems minor, but my brain's definitely more active after changing things.

We just started a business, so ideas around sales tactics, what to include in a business plan, etc

Getting my mind going with questions to ask for a Bible lesson I teach around a specific passage. Apparently it can pretty much quote an interpret any passage I've given to it and generate questions, in different styles or levels of depth.

Having it explain or find interesting tidbits around the ancient Greek in a bible passage. This one surprised me. Apparently it understands to some degree declensions, parts of speech, verb tenses, etc. It's not 100% correct here, but maybe as correct as it is with code. I'm not an expert either, just graduated seminary, so it's a nice support

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by lwhi »

Zealotux wrote: post #5
juvvel wrote: post #3

It can explain stuff to you in exactly the way you need to, and walk you through problems. You can ask it to create quizzes / guided questions for you which helps in organizing your own thoughts. Another application I find quite remarkable is asking it for good prompts for image generation models. The biggest benefit is that you're not starting from zero when entering a new problem space / domain.

But how do you assert the information is correct? It could be dangerous to blindly trust an imperfect tool as a teacher.

We need to interrogate and test all information we receive.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by el_nahual »

dandelany wrote: post #25
woeirua wrote: post #18

Call center employees are pretty much as good as gone once the price comes down on GPT4. You can pretty easily give it a good prompt that allows it to answer very specific questions about your company, or interact with external APIs to schedule services, make changes based on the customer's requests, etc. Throw some Speech to Text and Text to Speech services in front and behind it, and voila you have an AI receptioni…

I am dreading the inevitable future day when I have to argue about a denied health insurance claim on the phone with a fucking robot prompted to make it as difficult as possible for me to win.

The startup opportunity is to have an adversarial chatbot argue on your behalf. Feed it the terms and conditions of your policy, claim info, and then have it duke it out with the insurance company.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by xur17 »

woeirua wrote: post #18

Call center employees are pretty much as good as gone once the price comes down on GPT4. You can pretty easily give it a good prompt that allows it to answer very specific questions about your company, or interact with external APIs to schedule services, make changes based on the customer's requests, etc. Throw some Speech to Text and Text to Speech services in front and behind it, and voila you have an AI receptioni…

> or interact with external APIs to schedule services, make changes based on the customer's requests, etc.

I've been looking to build something like this (small side project). Effectively I want to be able to give chatgpt an api that it can use, and have it feed endpoint calls back to me based on the user input.

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