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OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Can I tell you one more thing from your X,Y,Z results which is most doctors miss? I absolutely hate this influencer-ish behavior. If there's something most people miss just state it. That's why I'm using the assistant. This form of dialogue is a big part of why I use GPT less now.
> If there's something most people miss just state it. But the LLM suggesting a question doesn't mean it has a good answer to converge to. If you actually ask, the model probabilities will be pressured to come up with something, anything, to follow up on the offer, which will be nonsense if there actually weren't anything else to add. I've seen this pattern fail a lot on roleplay (e.g. AI Dungeon) so I really dislike…
You should be careful with ideas like "sufficiently smart LLM" - quotes and all. There's no intelligence here, just next token prediction. And the idea of an LLM being self-aware is ludicrous. Ask one what the difference between hallucinations and lying is and get a list similar to this why the LLM isn't lying:
- No intent, beliefs, or awareness
- No concept of “know” truth vs. falsehood
- A byproduct of how it predicts text based on patterns
- Arises from probabilistic text generation
- A model fills gaps when it lacks reliable knowledge
- Errors often look confident because the system optimizes for fluency, not truth
- Produces outputs that statistically resemble true statements
- Not an agent, no moral responsibility
- Lacks “committment” to a claim unless specifically designed to track it
Re: OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
#123I feel like OpenAI has been executing extremely well since it started leaning harder into Codex.
Right now, the people who really see it are power users of AI and software engineers. Most equity investors still don’t seem to get it.
It feels like the calm before the storm. A lot of the groundwork is being laid quietly beneath the surface.
And at least in the country where I live, I can already feel real momentum building around enterprise adoption, both in terms of partnerships and go-to-market structure.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bait what exactly ? Getting the user to type "yes" ? Great accomplishment. Sometimes I want the extra paragraph, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I like the suggested follow up, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have half an hour in front of me to keep digging into a subject, sometimes I don't. Why should the LLM "just write the extra paragraph" (consuming electricity in the process) to a potential follow up question a user…
You send all the tokens an extra time at least
I’m not privy to their data on what this does to engagement, but intuitively it seems like the extra inference/token cost this incurs doesn’t align with their current model.
If they were doing it to API customers, sure, but getting the free or flat-rate customers to use more tokens seems counterproductive.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you both name and shame?
Name pretty much any company. Every one of my friends have said their company is doing this. Across 3 countries mind you. Especially if they already use microsoft office suite. Those folks got sold copilot on a deal it seems.
Opposite. Everyone of my friend's companies don't do this. They all work at smaller companies though, which I bet is the difference.
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#126From the article: "You can see that in the recent iterations of ChatGPT. It has become such a sycophant, and creates answers and options, that you end up engaging with it. That’s juicing growth. Facebook style." This is something I relalized lately. ChatGPT is juicing growth Facebook style. The last time, I asked it a medical question, it answered the question, but ended the answer with something like "Can I tell you…
> "Can I tell you one more thing from your X,Y,Z results which is most doctors miss ? "
I just noticed this for the first time this week (it only happens to me on Instant mode).
Yuck.
Re: OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
#127From the article: "You can see that in the recent iterations of ChatGPT. It has become such a sycophant, and creates answers and options, that you end up engaging with it. That’s juicing growth. Facebook style." This is something I relalized lately. ChatGPT is juicing growth Facebook style. The last time, I asked it a medical question, it answered the question, but ended the answer with something like "Can I tell you…
omg this x1000
I’ve been very happy with Claude Code. I saw enough positive things about Codex being better I bought a sub to give it a whirl.
ChatGPT/Codex’s insistence on ending EVERY message or operation with a “would you like to do X next” is infuriating. I just want codex to write and implement a damn plan until it is done. Stop quitting and the middle and stop suggesting next steps. Just do the damn thing.
Cancelled and back to Claude Code.
Re: OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
#128From the article: "You can see that in the recent iterations of ChatGPT. It has become such a sycophant, and creates answers and options, that you end up engaging with it. That’s juicing growth. Facebook style." This is something I relalized lately. ChatGPT is juicing growth Facebook style. The last time, I asked it a medical question, it answered the question, but ended the answer with something like "Can I tell you…
It kept asking “can I do this, can I do that” and I kept saying Yes. It ended up being a VERY lengthy conversation, it started repeating itself towards the end.
Not all of it was bad though. A lot of the questions were actually relevant. Not defending ChatGPT here, I suppose they’re trying to keep me on the page so they can show ads - there was an ad after every answer
Re: OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
#129From the article: "You can see that in the recent iterations of ChatGPT. It has become such a sycophant, and creates answers and options, that you end up engaging with it. That’s juicing growth. Facebook style." This is something I relalized lately. ChatGPT is juicing growth Facebook style. The last time, I asked it a medical question, it answered the question, but ended the answer with something like "Can I tell you…
This seems to be a feature most chatbots have copied from each other. I've found that OpenAI's implementation of suggestions rarely results in something useful.
"Do you want me to find actual eBay links for an X?"
"Yes"
"Okay, on eBay you can find links by searching for..."
It does work if I'm guiding it, but the suggested next action is sort of useful. The funniest version of this was when I uploaded a PDF of Kessler 1995 on PTSD just to talk through some other search items and Gemini suggested the following ridiculous confluence of memory (from other chats clearly) and suggestion:
> Since you mentioned being interested in the ZFS file system and software consulting, would you be interested in seeing how the researchers used Kaplan-Meier survival analysis to map out the "decay" of PTSD symptoms over time?
Top notch suggestion, mate. Really appreciate the explanation there as well.
Re: OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
#130From the article: "You can see that in the recent iterations of ChatGPT. It has become such a sycophant, and creates answers and options, that you end up engaging with it. That’s juicing growth. Facebook style." This is something I relalized lately. ChatGPT is juicing growth Facebook style. The last time, I asked it a medical question, it answered the question, but ended the answer with something like "Can I tell you…
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