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Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by oblio »

jasonsb wrote: post #66
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #27

My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels…

> 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…

> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do?

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Post by qoez »

neom wrote: post #5

Just connect everything folks, we'll proactively read everything, all the time, and you'll be a 10x human, trust us friends, just connect everything...

And if you don't we're implicitly gonna suggest you'll be outcompeted by people who do connect everything

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by miyoji »

moralestapia wrote: post #127
agency wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

You obviously have never worked a company that spends time arguing about the "definition of done". It's one of the most subjective topics I know about.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by qiine »

neom wrote: post #5

Just connect everything folks, we'll proactively read everything, all the time, and you'll be a 10x human, trust us friends, just connect everything...

you are joking but I kinda want that.. except private, self hosted and open source.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by jhickok »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #62
Dilettante_ wrote: post #44

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>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".

At best, it has probabilistic biases. OpenAI had to train newer models to not favor the name "Lily." They have to do this manually for every single particular bias that the models generate that is noticed by the public. I'm sure there are many such biases that aren't important to train out of responses, but exist in latent space.

>At best, it has probabilistic biases.

What do you think humans have?

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by 9rx »

IanCal wrote: post #128
password54321 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Definitions do vary, but everyone agrees that it requires autonomy. That is ultimately what sets AGI apart from AI.

The GPT model alone does not offer autonomy. It only acts in response to explicit input. That's not to say that you couldn't built autonomy on top of GPT, though. In fact, that appears to be exactly what Pulse is trying to accomplish.

But Microsoft and OpenAI's contractual agreements state that the autonomy must also be economically useful to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in autonomously-created economic activity, so OpenAI will not call it as such until that time.

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Post by DarkNova6 »

bob1029 wrote: post #102

> Pulse introduces this future in its simplest form: personalized research and timely updates that appear regularly to keep you informed. Soon, Pulse will be able to connect with more of the apps you use so updates capture a more complete picture of your context. We’re also exploring ways for Pulse to deliver relevant work at the right moments throughout the day, whether it’s a quick check before a meeting, a reminde…

Yes, this already reads like the beginning of the end. But I am personally pretty happy using Mistral so far and trust Altman only as far as I could throw him.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by labrador »

ducttape12 wrote: post #125
labrador wrote: post #78

No 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)

I don't wake up and start talking to my phone. I make myself breakfast/coffee and sit down in front of my window on the world and start exploring it. I like the old internet, not the curated walled gardens of phone apps.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by buffalobuffalo »

9rx wrote: post #89
jasonsb wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

> AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. No more powerful than I without the A. The only advantage AI has over I is that it is cheaper, but that's the appeal of the blockchain as well: It's cheaper than VISA. The trouble with the blockchain is that it hasn't figured out how to be useful generally. Much like AI, it only works in certain niches. The past interest in the blockchain was premi…

Blockchain only has 2 legitimate uses (from an economic standpoint) as far as I can tell.

1) Bitcoin figured out how to create artificial scarcity, and got enough buy-in that the scarcity actually became valuable.

2)Some privacy coins serve an actual economic niche for illegal activity.

Then there's a long list of snake oil uses, and competition with payment providers doesn't even crack the top 20 of those. Modern day tulip mania.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by boc »

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…

Blockchain is essentially useless.

You need legal systems to enforce trust in societies, not code. Otherwise you'll end up with endless $10 wrench attacks until we all agree to let someone else hold our personal wealth for us in a secure, easy-to-access place. We might call it a bank.

The end state of crypto is always just a nightmarish dystopia. Wealth isn't created by hoarding digital currency, it's created by productivity. People just think they found a shortcut, but it's not the first (or last) time humans will learn this lesson.

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