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Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by WD-42 »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #45

I'm playing around with this right now and it's pretty sweet. It real-time shows which lines it's "thinking" about working and feels very dynamic, like I'm working with a machine in real-time. It can't display markdown and formatted code side-by-side which is kind of a surprise. I haven't tried doing anything super complex with it yet. Just having it generate some poems, but it's smart enough to be able to use natura…

I’m kinda giggling imaging the amount of electricity you used to write “sky..”.replace(“sky”, “goodbye”)

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by famouswaffles »

nmfisher wrote: post #76
yumraj wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AGI is a research project. These are revenue generators. Both have a place.

If I genuinely thought I was close to AGI, I’d focus all my efforts on that, then ask it to build my revenue generators. That’s probably what Ilya is doing. (FWIW I don’t think we’re close to AGI).

That's how you go bankrupt before reaching your goal. "Close" doesn't necessarily mean next week close.

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by riffraff »

cj wrote: post #4

This is cool, but I wish it were integrated into tools already used for coding and writing rather than having it be a separate app. This also demonstrates the type of things Google could do with Gemini integrated into Google Docs if they step up their game a bit. Honestly I’m scratching my head on OpenAI’s desire to double down on building out their consumer B2C use cases rather than truly focussing on being the infr…

google has gemini integrated in Google Colab (jupyter notebooks) and while it doesn't work 100% well, it's a pretty great idea.

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by Workaccount2 »

meowface wrote: post #91
danielovichdk wrote: post #38

No thank you. As with anything else that is helpful, there is a balancing act to be aware of. This is too much for my taste. Just like github copilot is too much. It's too dumb like this. But chatgpt is insanely helpful in a context where I really need to learn something I am deep diving into or where I need an extra layer of direction. I do not use the tool for coding up front. I use them for iterations on narrow su…

I think you should try to give tools like this another chance. If Andrej Karpathy can say AI-assisted programming is a productivity boost for him ( https://x.com/karpathy/status/1827143768459637073 ), it can be a productivity boost for probably any programmer.

There are three groups of people here:

1.) Those who use AI and talk about it.

2.) Those who do not use AI and talk about it.

3.) Those who use AI and talk about how they do not and will not use AI.

You don't have to look far to see how humans react to performance enhancers that aren't exactly sanctioned as OK (Steroids).

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by herval »

cj wrote: post #4

This is cool, but I wish it were integrated into tools already used for coding and writing rather than having it be a separate app. This also demonstrates the type of things Google could do with Gemini integrated into Google Docs if they step up their game a bit. Honestly I’m scratching my head on OpenAI’s desire to double down on building out their consumer B2C use cases rather than truly focussing on being the infr…

LLM as a service is much easier to replicate than physical data centers and there's a much lower potential user base than consumers, so I'd imagine they're swimming upstream into B2C land in order to justify the valuation

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by tsunamifury »

I appreciate the elegant product design and ability to refine to a greater degree but I have to ask myself …

We’ve compressed the world’s knowledge into a coherent system that can be queried for anything and reason on a basic level.

What do we need with content anymore? Honestly. Why generate this. It seems like a faux productivity cycle that does nothing but poorly visualize the singularity.

Why not work on truly revolutionary ways to visualize the make this singularity so radically new things? Embody it. Maps its infinite coherence. Give it control in limited zones.

Truly find its new opportunities.

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by csomar »

mvdtnz wrote: post #25
throwgfgfd25 wrote: post #7

Do they not understand that the example text they are using in the first image is so laughably banal that it makes an entire segment of its potential audience not want to engage at all? Shoot me in the face if my own writing is ever that bad. ETA: just to be clear... I am not a great writer. Or a bad one. But this is a particular kind of bad . The kind we should all try to avoid.

That exact banality has somehow made them into a 150 billion dollar business and darling of hacker news.

They plateaued on model performance and they are hype based. They need to keep the momentum going by "releasing" stuff, so they are garbage out at the moment. Given that open weight models are so close to gpt-4, their value is exactly 0 unless they can produce a new model with a significant jump in coherence.

Them releasing this stuff actually suggest they don't have much progress in their next model. It's a sell signal but today's investors have made their money in zirp, so they have no idea about the real world market. In a sense this is the market funneling money from stupid to grifter.

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