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Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

#31

Summarizing must be the low hanging fruit on the GPT-3 api because everybody and their mother wants to summarize everything for me now. Who's going to write me an extension to aggregate and summarize all my summaries?

I'll do it for 100k and the title "prompt artisan"

This is SO going to become a thing on LinkedIn.

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

#32

Summarizing must be the low hanging fruit on the GPT-3 api because everybody and their mother wants to summarize everything for me now. Who's going to write me an extension to aggregate and summarize all my summaries?

I used to use Nutshell, but it went out of business because its name was too long.

https://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2007/05/irtnog_by_...

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

#36

Everyone and their mother advertising AI-powered features. I wonder if it's because there's a ton of value to unlock today with AI or is it because that is the only way to get funding / attention these days?

At least in my line of work:

* Ton of value.

* GPT-3 makes it easy to gain that value.

It's a little bit like the Internet gold rush of the .com boom. I have no idea who'll be left standing, but there's something transformational here.

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

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Any potential security issues with giving GPT-3 access to all your emails?

We use OpenAI's GPT-3 API to generate summaries. We have explicitly opted out of OpenAI's default behavior of using their APIs to train their models [1]. Our summarization feature is entirely opt-in. So if you're concerned about sharing your emails with OpenAI, you can choose not to use the feature. You can also read our Privacy Policy [2] and Terms of Service [3] to see how your data is used. [1] https://help.openai…

Have you considered working through Azure's APIs instead? It's like OpenAI, but with more guarantees of privacy / security.

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

#39

Everyone and their mother advertising AI-powered features. I wonder if it's because there's a ton of value to unlock today with AI or is it because that is the only way to get funding / attention these days?

At least in my line of work: * Ton of value. * GPT-3 makes it easy to gain that value. It's a little bit like the Internet gold rush of the .com boom. I have no idea who'll be left standing, but there's something transformational here.

I think is a mix, there are probably a lot of areas where it does provide value and it's getting to a point where training or tuning existing models is low hanging fruit for those areas. There is for sure another whole section of this that is "second life" like for marketing teams -- where they want to market something in the AI space to try to ride the wave. I fear a lot of the executions coming right now are "just do something with AI".

Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail

#40

Everyone and their mother advertising AI-powered features. I wonder if it's because there's a ton of value to unlock today with AI or is it because that is the only way to get funding / attention these days?

There's a lot of value to be unlocked over this decade and not very many people know where that value is at (so most will flail around trying to find something useful). There will be a massive amount of throwing things against the wall to see what sticks.
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