ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution

Post by josho » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 8:44 PM UTC

stubybubs wrote: post #114

crazygringo wrote: post #39

The culprit seems to be: > " Chollet thinks he knows what’s going on: summer vacation... a significant portion of students using ChatGPT to do their homework. It’s one of the most common uses for ChatGPT, according to Sam Gilbert, a data scientist and author. " https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chatgpt-suddenly-isn-t-boomin...

Given that ChatGPT was just released last fall and it was expected to revolutionize practically everything, isn't it still telling that usage is falling? Where are the scientists, lawyers, doctors, office workers etc? You'd expect a slowing in the rate of growth, not shrinking. I don't know, if high school and undergrad students being off for the summer is enough to shrink your app maybe it's not all that? Edit: I un…

Post by gAI » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 8:47 PM UTC

brk wrote: post #170

copperx wrote: post #143

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I consider code to be non-fiction, and ChatGPT will generate stuff that compiles and works most of the time. There's no need to triple-check the code output.

But this is not really an accurate comparison. "Code" is really a much much much smaller and much much much more structured output than "English words". Presumably, the system was trained with a very small amount of "untrue code" in the sense of stuff that just absolutely could never work. And also presumably, it was trained with a lot of free-form text that was definitely wrong or false, and highly likely to have be…

Post by QuantumGood » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 8:49 PM UTC

tempestn wrote: post #144

CydeWeys wrote: post #126

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I see people using ChatGPT, Bard, etc. to answer questions on mailing list threads. It'll be a long thread of thoughtful human written responses, and then someone will come along and say "I asked Bard what it thought about this issue, here's the response". And then out comes five paragraphs of text that I might as well not even bother reading, as it often contains falsehoods that I have to waste time looking up and d…

The point is you need to collaborate with the LLM, not just expect it to provide fully-formed answers. I've saved countless hours of work over the past few months using GPT-4 to help me solve problems. One general framework can be to use it to help you google a solution instead of a problem. Googling a problem gives you all kinds of results, which you then need to dig through and understand in order to evaluate wheth…

Post by fnordpiglet » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 8:52 PM UTC

chrisco255 wrote: post #54

fnordpiglet wrote: post #20

A bit of clickbait seems to me. “9 month old Demo ware service sees fluctuation in active users” I find it weird that folks seem to look at ChatGPT as some sort of end product. It’s a “holy shit this is cool” demo that became viral. It’s not a product. It’s a POC.

It's definitely a product, as the company charges money for the service.

Post by JohnFen » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 8:56 PM UTC

7thaccount wrote: post #174

JohnFen wrote: post #167

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> then someone will come along and say "I asked Bard what it thought about this issue, here's the response" At least they tell you where the text came from, so you know to skip it. It's worse when they just post an LLM response as their own.

This would annoy me significantly. Can I ask what field you're in?