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ChatGPT Pulse
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#122They're really trying everything. They need the Google/Apple ecosystem to compete against them. Fb is adding LLMs to all its products, too. Personally, I stopped using ChatGPT months ago in favor of other services, depending on what I'm trying to accomplish.
Luckily for them, they have a big chunk of the "pie", so they need to iterate and see if they can form a partnership with Dell, HP, Canonical, etc, and take the fight to all of their competitors (Google, Microsoft, etc.)
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
This. I had this long standing dispute that I just never had the energy to look up what needed to be done to resolve it. I just told it to ChatGPT and it generated everything -- including the emails I needed to send and who to send them to. Two weeks later and it was taken care of. I had sat on it for literally 3 months until then.
If I could have something that said, "Here are some things that it looks like you're procrastinating on -- do you want me to get started on them for you?" -- that would probably be crazy useful.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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.
Code is probably just 20% effort. There is so much more after that. Like manage the infra around it and the reliability when it scales, and even things like managing SPAM and preventing abuse. And the effort required to market it and make it something people want to adopt.
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#125No desktop version. I know I'm old, but do people really do serious work on small mobile phone screens? I love my glorious 43" 4K monitor, I hate small phone screens but I guess that's just me.
This isn't about doing "serious" work, it's about making ChatGPT the first thing you interact with in the day (and hopefully something you'll keep coming back to)
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
any objective measure of "productivity" (when it comes to knowledge work) is, when you dig down into it enough, ultimately subjective.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
"Not done" vs "Done" is as objective as it gets.
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#128Earlier 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.
No one agrees on what agi means.
IMO we’re clearly there, gpt5 would easily be considered agi years ago. I don’t think most people really get how non-general things were that are now handled by the new systems.
Now agi seems to be closer to what others call asi. I think k the goalposts will keep moving.
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#129AI doesn't have a pulse. Am I the only one creeped out by personification of tech?
"Pulse" here comes from the newspaper/radio lineage of the word, where it means something along the lines of timely, rhythmic news delivery. Maybe there is reason to be creeped out by journalists from centuries ago personifying their work, but that has little to do with tech.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Well, I'm not the one who owns the data center(s) full of all the GPUs it would presumably take to produce a gmail's worth of tokens.
However, I take your point - OpenAI has an interest in some other party paying them a fuckton of money for those tokens and then publicly crediting OpenAI and asserting the tokens would have been worth it at ten fucktons of money. And also, of course, in having that other party take on the risk that infinity fucktons of money worth of OpenAI tokens is not enough to make a gmail.
So they would really need to believe in the strategic necessity (and feasibility) of making their own gmail to go ahead with it.