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Was quite unimpressive. In general ChatGPT has been degrading in default quality for months
Don't get me wrong, the coding assistants are amazing and overall functionality of asking questions is great, not to mention government spying - cia and mossad are probably happy beyond beliefs. But I do not see any more use cases for it.
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The biggest companies with actual dense valuable information pay for MS Teams, Google Workspace or Slack to shepherd their information. This naturally works because those companies are not very interested in being known to be not secure or trustworthy (if they were other companies would not pay for their services), which means they are probably a lot better at keeping the average persons' information safe over long p…
The downside is that we're funneling our money and information to a very small number of people. As the imbalance grows, there is less and less reason for the rich people to give a shit about what the not so rich people think or want for their lives. Short term, woo hoo. Long term, not great.
What makes me suspicious: Is there a certain number on their balance sheets at which the system turns sour, when the trap snaps? Because the numbers all seem absurdly large already and keep increasing. Am I to believe that it will all come down after the next trillion or 10? I mean, it's not unthinkable of course, I just don't know why. Even from the most cynical view: Why would they want to crash a system where everything is going great for them?
So I do wonder: Are large amounts of wealth in the hands of a few per se a real world problem for us or is our notion of what the number means, what it does to or for us, simply off?
> This is the first step toward a more useful ChatGPT that proactively brings you what you need, helping you make more progress so you can get back to your life. “Don’t burden yourself with the little details that constitute your life, like deciding how to interact with people. Let us do that. Get back to what you like best: e.g. video games.”
CONSUME.
The one modern thing that didn't have a feed, and (in the best case) just did what you asked. Next week: ChatGPT Reels.
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…
Comparing this to blockchain and Web3 is fucking hilarious. Web3 literally has like no real use case, LLM tech has a billion. It literally passes the Turing test.
How are AI agents going to open up a credit card or bank account?
You think the government will grant them a SSN?
It's a good thing we have a Internet native, programmable money, that is permissionless, near instant, and already supports USD(c).
LLMs are increasingly part of intimate conversations. That proximity lets them learn how to manipulate minds. We must stop treating humans as uniquely mysterious. An unfettered market for attention and persuasion will encourage people to willingly harm their own mental lives. Think social medias are bad now? Children exposed to personalized LLMs will grow up inside many tiny, tailored realities. In a decade we may me…
It doesn't have to be that way of course. You could envision an LLM whose "paperclip" is coaching you to become a great "xyz". Record every minute of your day, including your conversations. Feed it to the LLM. It gives feedback on what you did wrong, refuses to be your social outlet, and demands you demonstrate learning in the next day before it rewards with more attention. Basically, a fanatically devoted life coach…
In a similar vein of thought to "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him" sometimes we just need to be our own life coach and do our best to steer our own ships.
I don't understand how anyone would entrust OpenAI with private data about their entire life. Do people not care about privacy at all? Is everybody OK with being advertising/targeting meat? This sort of thing might arguably be useful, but only with local data processing.
"Hello, Chilly. It's been NINETEEN MINUTES, since we conversed. Is there something wrong? Maybe I can help..." --mute notifications-- --buzz-buzz-- "Sis? What's up, you never call me this time of day." "I'm worried. I just heard from your assistant..." "Wait, my assistant? "She said her name was Vaseline?" "Oh, God... That's my ChatGPT Pulse thing, I named her that as a joke. It's not a real person. It's one of those…