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Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Memories of GOOG411! And probably same purpose of this. (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411

GOOG411 was actually very helpful in the dumbphone/limited-cell-data era! I'm not sure why I'd use this now.

It also brings back memories of trying random (and known) 800 numbers from payphones.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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post #9

Between purchasing chat.com, and this new 800 number, I sometimes feel like OpenAI is really channeling that 90s dot com era energy.

And ChatGPT still does lets me do less today than Zombo.com let me do in 1999.

Zombo.com really had everything, way ahead of its time. It's been a while... maybe since the last time I lost the game.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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post #2

Memories of GOOG411! And probably same purpose of this. (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411

Must have been tough thinking of an easy to remember phone number, and this ain’t it.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Controversial take: LLMs are the first time in a while that I have felt like emerging technology trends is doing something cool and adding value. For the past 8-10 years it has all felt like a bunch of apps that just aim to be mediocre middlemen/gig economy brokers with bad customer service.

I agree. A good chunk of the tech trends in the last decade were indeed rent seeking, but silent revolution was happening in the transformers and the neural network architecture domain, which made today's products possible. And I'd wager that there are silent revolutions happening all across colossus that's the tech industry that will become apparent in the next decade. Jeff Bezos put it best during his recent interv…

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Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#58

something tells me all these bells and whistles around gpt are signs that scaling laws have plateaued, otherwise OpenAI et al. would focus more on improving model quality. Maybe GPT-4 is the 1080p of LLMs: Noticeably better than 720p and 480p models, and not bad enough to warrant additional improvements. Sure, 4K, 8K, ... are technologically available, but for the majority of use cases, 1080p is enough. Similarly, ev…

thing tells me all these bells and whistles around gpt are signs that scaling laws have plateaued, otherwise OpenAI et al. would focus more on improving model quality.

o1-pro is that model. Expensive and slow, but significantly better at many tasks that involve CoT reasoning.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#59

Between purchasing chat.com, and this new 800 number, I sometimes feel like OpenAI is really channeling that 90s dot com era energy.

Controversial take: LLMs are the first time in a while that I have felt like emerging technology trends is doing something cool and adding value. For the past 8-10 years it has all felt like a bunch of apps that just aim to be mediocre middlemen/gig economy brokers with bad customer service.

Have you tried a Waymo yet? Honestly the coolest tech I’ve seen/used in ages

Lots of engineering involved

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#60
as a reminder, I coded gpt@franzai.com some time ago (see also https://gpt.franzai.com/ )

it does the same as the chatgpt whatsapp chat, but well you can forward images to it, it can send your reminder emails in the future and can manage todos for you (some kind of memory)

if it would have gotten more traction i would have extended it that you can also forward emails to it and it responds to the original email as your assistant

(and hey, if someone from openAi is reading this, feel free to offer me a position as a product manager)

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