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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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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…

Not sure how or why you’d want this integrated into Vim for instance.

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

#112

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…

Is it possible to have the local context be a directory and all files within it or something? Ie to just ask it questions on the side of your WIP repo? Use your normal editor/etc.

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

#114
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…

I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple add something like this to Pages and some of their other apps. Their approach to AI, from what we've seen so far, has been about integrating it into existing apps and experiences, rather than making a separate AI app. I have to imagine this is the way forward, and these stand alone apps are basically tech demos for what is possible, rather than end-state for how it should be consumed by the masses.

I agree with you on where OpenAI will/should sit in 5-10 years. However, I don't think them building the occasional tool like this is unwarranted, as it helps them show the direction companies could/should head with integration into other tools. Before Microsoft made hardware full time, they would occasionally produce something (or partner with brands) to show a new feature Windows supports as a way to tell the OEMs out there, "this is what we want you to do and the direction we'd like the PC to head." The UMPC[0] was one attempt at this which didn't take off. Intel also did something like this with the NUC[1]. I view what OpenAI is doing as a similar concept, but applied to software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-mobile_PC

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing

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

#115

Slick interface but the example they gave is depressing. We taught the model to open a canvas for prompts like “Write a blog post about the history of coffee beans”. If you're not heavily editing this post to say something genuinely new, then congratulations you've added even more drivel to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch of the internet.

yeah I find this example depressing, as much as the "rewrite this simple sentence tinto a paragraph that adds nothing to it".

But to be less negative, this (or NotebookLM) could be useful to re-arrange and enrich one's own notes.

Sadly the amount of LLM slop on the internet is already out of control, and I'm afraid there's no going back.

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

#117

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.

I thought the same thing: the “blog post” in the example image is an example of the absolute trash that’s being spewed onto the internet by these tools. 10+ sentences and yet somehow nothing actually said.

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

#118
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).

What if you think the timeframe is accelerated based on the number of ML engineers you hired over a > 5 year timeframe say?

If that's the case you need to optimize for hiring more ML engineers so you need revenue to bring in to pay them.

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

#119
post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do they not understand They don't care. Their goal is to accelerate the production of garbage.

I am trying to convince myself that I am not insane and everyone else is. The platform was literally down for me for a good 12 hours or so because they had an auth problem or bug. Their interface is subpar yet they are trying to convince people that this is replacing knowledge worker any minute now. I recommended to a friend that he uses chatGPT to write some English content and it did a bad job. I checked bolt yeste…

Garbage in, garbage out. It is not going to imagine your perfect scenario and then create it for you. I take anyone saying it is garbage with a grain of salt because it is incredibly useful for me. And others think so too, so how can your bad experience negate that. It can't. If you can craft the right prompts it can make you much more efficient. Anyone saying it is going to replace whole people en masse is just part of the hype machine. But if all it does is make every human on earth 1% more efficient then that is an obscene amount of value it is creating.

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

#120

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…

How do I get access to this feature? I cannot find it in the normal chatgpt interface.

I believe you wait until your number comes up :/
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