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

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 2:23 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #194

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The world is changing, and children should change with it. Learn and understand technology, and the benefits of where modern machine learning is taking us. But you cannot unironically think we can substitute fundamental skills like essay writing and critical thinking for a degree in 'prompt engineering'?

> But you cannot unironically think we can substitute fundamental skills like essay writing and critical thinking for a degree in 'prompt engineering'? Personally, I don't think that. However, I also think it's logical and good for a child to consider the task at hand and select the most efficient tool available. I am not this girl's parent, and I'm not sure how I would have handled the situation if I was. However, I…

Post by Wowfunhappy » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 3:41 PM UTC

HelloMcFly wrote: post #282

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #194

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> But you cannot unironically think we can substitute fundamental skills like essay writing and critical thinking for a degree in 'prompt engineering'? Personally, I don't think that. However, I also think it's logical and good for a child to consider the task at hand and select the most efficient tool available. I am not this girl's parent, and I'm not sure how I would have handled the situation if I was. However, I…

Parenting decisions are not isolated "best practice" moments, but the culmination of many conversations, events, interpersonal dynamics, and changes.

Post by svnt » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 4:27 PM UTC

choppaface wrote: post #262

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I mean they are buying degrees for six figures. If it meant good grades without doing the work and it became socially acceptable it is ~150 million global tertiary students times 10 months of the year times whatever that is worth on a monthly basis. Maybe only $150B ARR right now at $100/mo (textbooks to read cost more than this, but you don’t need them anymore), so not $1T on students but still massive, and if you c…

And Coursera opened at a $6b market cap. So how do we value ChatGPT then? Should it be as valuable as Coursera, Udacity etc put together? Should it be that PLUS Harvard Deloitte and ServiceNow? Or since they have no major moat should it be Zero? It’s hype of this scale that can rationalize unprecedented figures. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/03/31/coursera-ipo-cour-begins...

Post by CatWChainsaw » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 5:42 PM UTC

varispeed wrote: post #34

ChatGPT is too vanilla and is hiding a lot of "dark knowledge" - and I am not talking about obvious dangerous stuff, that should rightly so be censored, but rather being able to get insight how the rich operate, how they avoid paying taxes, how they build the financial structures, how they hide the money, what mechanisms they use to corrupt politicians or influence elections and how they get away with it and so on an…

Post by stubybubs » Sat, Jul 08, 2023, 7:39 PM UTC

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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…

Honestly does it really matter much if their B2C usage is primarily students? I’m more curious about their B2B operations which is likely what will trickle into more people’s lives. Their APIs seem to enable quite a few interesting possibilities with a low up front technical investment. Too me the whole “generate me a bunch of text and display it as text” is a niche use case for a lot of people. Integrations for web…