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Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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Yeah but how long did it take Meta’s Threads app to reach a million users? You didn’t include that or some more current examples on your graph.

You don't consider Threads a simple extension of Instagram?

It wasn't presented as that by Zuckerberg.

It was mostly an example to highlight that the graph was a little misleading. By the same token, ChatGPT is an extension of what OpenAI has been iterating.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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post #3

Yeah but how long did it take Meta’s Threads app to reach a million users? You didn’t include that or some more current examples on your graph.

You don't consider Threads a simple extension of Instagram?

Well, ChatGPT is a "simple extension" of Open AI, which has been around for a couple of years

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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post #22

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things…

Exactly. An electric drill is useless for me in a daily basis, but it doesn't mean it's useless for a carpenter.

Electric drill companies aren't being attributed deity-like capabilities and unicorn valuations on $0 revenue.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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post #10

We're barely scratching the surface of the space of applications of (very) LLMs and they're not going away anytime soon. The commercial world simply moves too slow for any clues about what's yet to come.

True, but there could still be an overinflated bubble that collapses in the meantime. In fact that's exactly what happened with the web: it sure was revolutionary (and we still haven't reached its full potential IMHO) but that fact didn't prevent the dotcom bubble burst.

The early web's killer app was email and instant messaging, which were orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than snail mail and long distance phone calls. That's why adoption was fast.

The current usefulness of consumer AI pales in comparison.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. An electric drill is useless for me in a daily basis, but it doesn't mean it's useless for a carpenter.

Electric drill companies aren't being attributed deity-like capabilities and unicorn valuations on $0 revenue.

That's not a new phenomenon and it's not the tool's fault.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you expand on this with some wider context, please? I’m not particularly familiar with Jasper, etc.

Jasper.ai (formerly Jarvis) was a YC startup that launched and reached a billion dollar valuation 18 months later. They were using AI to do copywriting/SEO, and most importantly they were doing this before ChatGPT came out. GPT-3 wasn't approachable for lay people, and relatively few people were building on it: So a lot of marketing people were seeing generative AI for the first time through this single tool. And obv…

I honestly don't even know what else Jasper et al could even do to stay relevant.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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post #22

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things…

Can you share a transcript where it saved you an hour? I’m trying to better understand how I might apply it to my work.

So far it’s only been useful to me when working with a tool I don’t really know. But most of my work I know the tools fairly well.

Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

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post #22

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things…

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Re: Imminent Death of ChatGPT [and Generative AI] Is Greatly Exaggerated

#40
post #22

I've been getting really frustrated reading peoples comments about how useless openAI is on twitter/reddit/whateversocialmedia. Chatgpt saves me probably tens of hours a week on various coding/math, whatever tasks. I use it for sed and regex constantly. Then one of these posts pops up on reddit and it's one of those "it'll never take our jerbs it's only good at writing bad poetry," posts look at all the funny things…

Can you share a transcript where it saved you an hour? I’m trying to better understand how I might apply it to my work. So far it’s only been useful to me when working with a tool I don’t really know. But most of my work I know the tools fairly well.

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