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Post by wrs »

password54321 wrote: post #59
Dilettante_ wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on The LLM does not have wants. It does not have preferences, and as such cannot "pick". Expecting it to have wants and preferences is "holding it wrong".

So are we near AGI or is it 'just' an LLM? Seems like no one is clear on what these things can and cannot do anymore because everyone is being gaslighted to keep the investment going.

Be careful with those "no one" and "everyone" words. I think everyone I know who is a software engineer and has experience working with LLMs is quite clear on this. People who aren't SWEs, people who aren't in technology at all, and people who need to attract investment (judged only by their public statements) do seem confused, I agree.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by Dilettante_ »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #106
Dilettante_ wrote: post #77

The handful of other commenters that brough it up are right: This is gonna be absolutely devastating for the "wireborn spouse", "I disproved physics" and "I am the messiah" crowd's mental health. But: I personally could see myself getting something like "Hey, you were studying up on SQL the other day, would you like to do a review, or perhaps move on to a lesson about Django?" Or take AI-assisted "therapy"/skills tra…

> This is gonna be absolutely devastating for the "wireborn spouse", "I disproved physics" and "I am the messiah" crowd's mental health. > I personally could see myself getting something like [...] AI-assisted "therapy" ???

I edited the post to make it more clear: I could see myself having ChatGPT prompt me about the SQL stuff, and the "therapy" (basic dbt or cbt stuff is not too complicated to coach someone for and can make a real difference, from what I gather) would be another way that I could see the technology being useful, not necessarily one I would engage with.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by svachalek »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #10

I'm immediately thinking of all the ways this could potentially affect people in negative ways. - People who treat ChatGPT as a romantic interest will be far more hooked as it "initiates" conversations instead of just responding. It's not healthy to relate personally to a thing that has no real feelings or thoughts of its own. Mental health directly correlates to living in truth - that's the base axiom behind cogniti…

I agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately I think you and I are part of maybe 5%-10% of the population that would value truth and reality over what's most convenient, available, pleasant, and self-affirming. Society was already spiraling fast and I don't see any path forward except acceleration into fractured reality.

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Post by DonHopkins »

yesfitz wrote: post #55
r0fl wrote: post #30

If you press the button to read the article to you all you hear is “object, object, object…”

Yeah, a 5 second clip of the word "Object" being inflected like it's actually speaking. But also it ends with "...object ject". When you inspect the network traffic, it's pulling down 6 .mp3 files which contain fragments of the clip. And it seems like the feature's broken for the whole site. The Lowes[1] press release is particularly good. Pretty interesting peek behind the curtain. 1: https://openai.com/index/lowes/

Thank you! I have preserved this precious cultural artifact:

https://archive.org/details/object-object

http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/ObjectObject.mp4

Original mp4 files available for remixing:

http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/ObjectObject.zip

>Pretty interesting peek behind the curtain.

It's objects all the way down!

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Post by xwowsersx »

moralestapia wrote: post #18
xwowsersx wrote: post #13

Google's edge obvious here is the deep integration it already has with calendar, apps, and chats and what not that lets them surface context-rich updates naturally. OpenAI doesn't have that same ecosystem lock-in yet, so to really compete they'll need to get more into those integrations. I think what it comes down to ultimately is that being "just a model" company isn't going to work. Intelligence itself will go to z…

How can you have an "edge" if you're shipping behind your competitors all the time? Lol.

Being late to ship doesn't erase a structural edge. Google is sitting on everyone's email, calendar, docs, and search history. Like, yeah they might be a lap or two behind but they're in a car with a freaking turbo engine. They have the AI talent, infra, data, etc. You can laugh at the delay, but I would not underestimate Google. I think catching up is less "if" and more "when"

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by esafak »

swalsh wrote: post #84
jasonsb wrote: post #66

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> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways. It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and crit…

" Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented " Actually AI may be more like blockchain then you give it credit for. Blockchain feels useless to you because you either don't care about or value the use cases it's good for. For those that do, it opens a whole new world they eagerly look forward to. As a coder, it's magical to describe a world, and then to see AI build it. As a copyeditor it may be…

People in countries with high inflation or where the banking system is unreliable are not using blockchains, either.

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Post by pton_xd »

Yesterday was a full one — you powered through a lot and kept yourself moving at a fast pace.

Might I recommend starting your day with a smooth and creamy Starbucks(tm) Iced Matcha Latte? I can place the order and have it delivered to your doorstep.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by esafak »

neutronicus wrote: post #98
glenstein wrote: post #54

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>Google's edge obvious here is the deep integration it already has with calendar, apps, and chats They did handle the growth from search to email to integrated suite fantastically. And the lack of a broadly adopted ecoystem to integrate into seems to be the major stopping point for emergent challengers, e.g. Zoom. Maybe the new paradigm is that you have your flashy product, and it goes without saying that it's staple…

If the model companies are serious about demonstrating the models' coding chops, slopping out a gmail competitor would be a pretty compelling proof of concept.

It would be better if you did that. That way you would not accuse them of faking it.

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Post by agency »

jasonsb wrote: post #82
jsheard wrote: post #76

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> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.

Objectively. I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago, but the biggest breakthrough has been overcoming procrastination. When AI handles over 50% of the work, there’s a 90% chance I’ll finish the entire task faster than it would normally take me just to get started on something new.

> I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago

Ok, so subjective

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