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Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Post by [deleted] »

mvdtnz wrote: post #9
gustavus wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello readers! Generative AI burst onto the scene like a summer blockbuster, promising transformative experiences. The tech-savvy among us were both awed and slightly terrified at the notion of AI creating human-like content. But has it lived up to its hype? The Highs of Generative AI [Graph 1: Rapid Growth of Generative AI Adoption] The above graph showcases the swift ascent of generative AI's adoption from 2019 to…

Please stop polluting hacker news with chatgpt output.

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Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Post by swozey »

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things I make it do!

The dissonance is wild. I'd hate to go back to working without it. It definitely has its uses.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Post by geodel »

swozey wrote: post #22

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things…

And these people you mention are trying to stop you from using ChatGPT or you can proceed only based on their opinion?

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Post by boredemployee »

swozey wrote: post #22

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things…

Exactly. An electric drill is useless for me in a daily basis, but it doesn't mean it's useless for a carpenter.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Post by jprete »

littlestymaar wrote: post #20
loa_in_ wrote: post #10

We're barely scratching the surface of the space of applications of (very) LLMs and they're not going away anytime soon. The commercial world simply moves too slow for any clues about what's yet to come.

True, but there could still be an overinflated bubble that collapses in the meantime. In fact that's exactly what happened with the web: it sure was revolutionary (and we still haven't reached its full potential IMHO) but that fact didn't prevent the dotcom bubble burst.

The Web also has had a lot of downsides that weren’t clear at the time, particularly when paired with smartphones and Skinner-style behavior reinforcement.

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Post by lumost »

swozey wrote: post #22

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things…

A tool every person uses daily can be worth anything from hundreds of millions to trillions of dollars. The issue, as always with AI, is overselling it. Pre-Revenue startups raising at billion dollar valuations is certainly not going to end well. Hence anything that looks like it will prick the bubble is worth talking about to a certain segment.

On the other hand, the finances of AI are only loosely correlated with it's utility to individuals. If OpenAI went from being worth 10 Billion to 500 MM, it wouldn't make too much difference to people who use OpenAI products.

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Post by BoorishBears »

cyrillite wrote: post #16
BoorishBears wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jasper was too early, right on time, and too late all at the same time: - They were "too early" in that what they were squeezing out of GPT-3 was what 3.5/4 could enable from day 1 with ease... - But they were right on time because 3.5/4 would have made differentiating their AI copywriting tool almost impossible, meanwhile GPT-2 was too finicky to scale like they managed to scale GPT-3 did. - And then they were "too…

Could you expand on this with some wider context, please? I’m not particularly familiar with Jasper, etc.

Jasper.ai (formerly Jarvis) was a YC startup that launched and reached a billion dollar valuation 18 months later.

They were using AI to do copywriting/SEO, and most importantly they were doing this before ChatGPT came out.

GPT-3 wasn't approachable for lay people, and relatively few people were building on it: So a lot of marketing people were seeing generative AI for the first time through this single tool. And obviously it was earth shattering for them.

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The problem is ChatGPT made outputting what Jasper does extremely trivial: I hang around random SEO FB groups and at least once a week someone asks if Jasper is worth it, and a bunch of people chime in saying no ChatGPT output is just as good.

ChatGPT is also incredibly easy to use: a grandma could use ChatGPT to write an SEO friendly recipe post.

That all leaves Jasper an awkward spot. I don't think they'll die, but to stay competitive they'll need to shed a ton of dead weight. They obviously can't keep all the machinery they built around GPT-3 running if it's no longer adding value, they now have to work 100x harder on positioning, etc.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Post by p1p1p1 »

mvdtnz wrote: post #9
gustavus wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello readers! Generative AI burst onto the scene like a summer blockbuster, promising transformative experiences. The tech-savvy among us were both awed and slightly terrified at the notion of AI creating human-like content. But has it lived up to its hype? The Highs of Generative AI [Graph 1: Rapid Growth of Generative AI Adoption] The above graph showcases the swift ascent of generative AI's adoption from 2019 to…

Please stop polluting hacker news with chatgpt output.

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Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Post by swozey »

geodel wrote: post #23
swozey wrote: post #22

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things…

And these people you mention are trying to stop you from using ChatGPT or you can proceed only based on their opinion?

I think you've missed the point I'm trying to make. I'm not entertaining their opinions. I'm annoyed that they don't see the utility at all and think it's such a gimmick. It's incredibly helpful to me day to day.

They act like it's literally useless except for plagiarism.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Post by AtNightWeCode »

I think a problem with AI is that it is used so much by people that don't really know a field. Like middle management. I heard those fools claiming that a complete IT project took a couple of minutes to do with ChatGPT. The same crazy people that said 5 years ago that all devs will be replaced by low-code by some years ago. Incompetent people will use AI the most. That is a risk.

There is no death of ChatGPT in sight. Even if the UX was a bit of a hoax to begin with. It would be if some of the other models beat it.

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