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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 m3kw9 »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #71
extr wrote: post #61

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Optimistically, it might be an improvement. Imagine a world where you can call in or chat. Hold time is zero in both cases. You never need to "transfer" to a new department, or supply the same information over and over. LLMs have access to all the case files and needed info on the backend instantaneously. Health insurance companies may still seek to deny claims, but the fog of bureaucracy is no longer so easy to hide…

Often, holding times are not only due to a shortage of call center employees available, but also to encourage the caller to give up. I doubt the hold time would be zero, unless the government legislates a maximum hold time. Even then, the AI could stall with endless patience and requesting clarifications and further information, and repeating details back to you to confirm, with minor errors requiring correction, whi…

New security threat unlocked: DDOS for chat agents

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

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Post by satvikpendem »

sacnoradhq wrote: post #108
waboremo wrote: post #54

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I'm seeing similar, chatgpt replacing a lot of external libraries and digging through the weeds to find the right endpoint. After all, why bother dealing with so many external libraries to get it done when you can just relay the core ones you must use and ask chatgpt to flesh out the rest in a way that suits your needs? Need a component to be gamepad accessible written in Vue? Ask and you'll receive. No more botherin…

ChatGPT replaces StackOverflow

Indeed, but it's sad because ChatGPT won't be indexed like SO, so in the future, we won't really get the same sorts of improvements as we have now.

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

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Post by satvikpendem »

throwawaytemp29 wrote: post #32
cjdoc29 wrote: post #6

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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 expl…

32k words with GPT-4, no? That's what they said in the demo video.

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

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Post by cloudking »

yosito wrote: post #29
cloudking wrote: post #4

I'm using it to write WordPress plugins that can be used in place of expensive yearly subscription plugins.

Why not use it to write expensive yearly subscription WordPress plugins? Make some money with it.

Definitely thinking about it, and open sourcing some too.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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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 yosito »

throwawaytemp29 wrote: post #32
cjdoc29 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 expl…

Oh, that's interesting. I hadn't noticed it forgetting context, but I just asked "Do you remember the original prompt I gave you when starting this conversation?" and it said "Yes, the original prompt you gave me was: 'Hello, can you help me convert 0.05 BTC to USD?'". So, yeah, it's definitely forgetting some things.

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Post by d0mine »

galleywest200 wrote: post #87
d0mine wrote: post #84

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How certain are you that these are real songs and not just hallucinations? How would you check it? Web search shows its sources e.g., if it is link to the official YouTube channel, then there is some certainty that is not a fake.

You check the output by listening to the songs. A web search to find songs of an artist with shouting would take listening to a bunch of tracks you "thought" were it. Now at least you have three to look at first. I did the same thing last night with "Sega dreamcast games with giant robots". It spit out names and I searched them on wikipedia until I found the exact one I remembered. (Slave Zero was the game for the cu…

You are assuming that a web search is somehow fundamentally worse at finding _existing_ content. Ridiculous. Given that it can use LLMs (among other things) behind the scenes. The opposite can also be true (LLM can use web search), the difference is how likely that BS is generated.

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Post by fragsworth »

satvikpendem wrote: post #112
sacnoradhq wrote: post #108

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ChatGPT replaces StackOverflow

Indeed, but it's sad because ChatGPT won't be indexed like SO, so in the future, we won't really get the same sorts of improvements as we have now.

Hopefully that far in the future, it will actually understand coding on a deep enough level that we won't need to train it anymore.

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

Populate open world videogames with real living characters that evolve to your way of gaming.

Apparently somebody tested chatgpt 4 as a d&d DM and worked really well, so this coupled with AI voice acting could lead to exceptional results in the game industry.

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

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Post by carlosjobim »

PeterisP wrote: post #96
carlosjobim wrote: post #74

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No electronic solution can ever come close to having a real spoken conversation with another person. DeepL and other AI translators are great for text, though.

It can come close enough that if the choice is between an expensive live translator and a cheap (or free) voice-to-voice machine translation, then many people might prefer the latter.

You don't need either. We as humans are very good at communicating with each other even if we use different languages. What is important is not the words that are said, but the interaction between humans, which include much more than just words.

If you talk with a stranger it is usually something along the lines of needing to find a place or person, wanting to eat, drink or sleep. As people are intelligent, most will understand just from the situation what is the likely mission or needs of the stranger. The other purpose of talking with another person is to socialize and establish acquaintance or friendship. An AI will not help you with establishing a human connection. It is all in the tone of voice, the body language, the eyes, the smile.

If you want to communicate anything complicated or different than the above, a written translation is preferable. In almost all situations, using an AI voice translation will be met by the reaction "Why is this creepy man bothering me?"

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