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Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by MrFoof »

TMWNN wrote: post #17
MrFoof wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, internet adoption rates in the 90s was largely a function of ISP pricing regime changes. I think it was 1995 when WOW!, which was a subsidiary of CompuServe, offered unlimited hours for $15/month. AOL followed shortly thereafter. Prior to that it was something like $4-6/hour, usually at only 14.4kbps - 28.8kbps. Going from 2.5 - 4 hours a month to a household being able to easily surpass 100 hours a month…

>I think it was 1995 when WOW!, which was a subsidiary of CompuServe, offered unlimited hours for $15/month. AOL followed shortly thereafter. I thought AOL was the first to offer unlimited hours for a fixed fee, with everyone else imitating it. Am I mistaken?

WOW! first. I know because we had it, and for that reason alone. Before WOW! we would do the X hour free trials of ISPs and that's all the internet we had. AOL followed less than a year later, and we switched to AOL only then because of AIM and their walled garden (talking pre-Netscape) was better.

WOW! was fairly poorly advertised. We originally got it via a free CD at a store (Barnes and Noble or Office Max?), and they started doing TV advertisements a few months later. Though almost immediately thereafter AOL started their giant Unlimited Hours advertising blitz. Marketing truly won in that scenario. CompuServe had a shot, but no one knew about WOW! so it died in obscurity and under the weight of AOL's genuinely gargantuan marketing efforts.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by tkgally »

sour-taste wrote: post #34

Open AI is the 21'th most visited site in Japan: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/ 47th in the US: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/ I kind of didn't think that ChatGPT was getting traction outside of tech circles but this 100% changed my mind.

I live in Japan and follow the news in Japanese, and I’ve been surprised at how quickly awareness of ChatGPT has spread in the government and the mainstream media here. The prime minister met Sam Altman last month [1] and has mentioned generative AI in official statements [2, in Japanese]. Every day I see articles in the Japanese press about it. This morning’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun—both digital and paper editions—has a detailed guide to prompt engineering [3, in Japanese, firewalled].

I am on the faculty of a university in Tokyo, and next week I’m going to be giving a couple of online workshops for the staff members in my department. I plan to show them how they can use GPT-4 in their work: translating and summarizing documents, writing and polishing e-mails, composing Excel functions, brainstorming, etc.

Interest seems high, but usage is still limited. I sent out a survey yesterday to people planning to attend the workshops. One of the questions was “How much have you used ChatGPT, Google Bard, or other LLMs?” Of the 26 who have replied so far, only two replied “frequently.” Half have used them “only a little,” and 11 have not used them yet at all.

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/OpenAI-CEO-vows-...

[2] https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/101_kishida/actions/202304/25shi...

[3] https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC1177N0R10C23A4000000/

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by lucb1e »

chatmasta wrote: post #40
lucb1e wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is one of the bigcorps that has required a phone number based on secret sauce for quite a few years now, I think they may have been one of the first to demand it. Back then, one of the factors was whether your IP address had been used for signups previously but there were and are probably more ingredients that go into the formula. Registering from a clean phone without any SIM would often work when the web reg…

Yeah, I haven't gone to great lengths to hide my identity. I just wanted an account for shitposting on YouTube comments. I'm sure the feds can find me if they don't like what I'm asking Chat GPT, but at least my conversations won't show up in the results of any JOIN queries for my phone number or email address.

Exactly. I have "nothing to hide" when there is reasonable suspicion, but service operators these days are just too nosy.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by dorkwood »

sour-taste wrote: post #34

Open AI is the 21'th most visited site in Japan: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/ 47th in the US: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/ I kind of didn't think that ChatGPT was getting traction outside of tech circles but this 100% changed my mind.

In my experience it's getting traction everywhere. In the last few months I've spoken to a lawyer, a builder, a marketer, a graphic designer, and several taxi drivers, all who were using it themselves.

The lawyer even said they used it at work. I asked them if their firm had any rules around what they could put into it, and they said no.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by [deleted] »

tkgally wrote: post #43
sour-taste wrote: post #34

Open AI is the 21'th most visited site in Japan: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/ 47th in the US: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/ I kind of didn't think that ChatGPT was getting traction outside of tech circles but this 100% changed my mind.

I live in Japan and follow the news in Japanese, and I’ve been surprised at how quickly awareness of ChatGPT has spread in the government and the mainstream media here. The prime minister met Sam Altman last month [1] and has mentioned generative AI in official statements [2, in Japanese]. Every day I see articles in the Japanese press about it. This morning’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun—both digital and paper editions—has…

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Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by asdff »

sour-taste wrote: post #34

Open AI is the 21'th most visited site in Japan: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/ 47th in the US: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/ I kind of didn't think that ChatGPT was getting traction outside of tech circles but this 100% changed my mind.

I got a haircut last month and my barber already used it and wasn't too impressed

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by alwayslikethis »

chatmasta wrote: post #32
lucb1e wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I find makes it a lot more accessible is third party sites that don't require you to identify with personal information before you're allowed to use it. These seem to be popping up more and more and lets me feel like I can talk without it being added to a permanent record somewhere. Sure, you can subpoena my ISP and get the IP+datetime turned into a subscriber, but that's different from tying it all to my phone…

I didn't need to provide a phone number to OpenAI when I signed up for ChatGPT via OAuth with my Google account (which also has no device or phone number associated with it). But maybe I was just lucky enough to register before the requirement existed. I did need to put some effort into configuring TOTP 2FA for the Google account without first giving Google a phone number, but I was able to do it by simulating a WebA…

I think in terms of privacy, you are worse off giving them a used Google account than a phone number. By using Google for this, you let Google know what you are logging in to OpenAI.

More generally I'm just getting tired of corps requiring phone numbers. If only there is something like SimpleLogin but for phone numbers (generating single purpose numbers for each source) to prevent phone number collection and spam.

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by asdff »

asdff wrote: post #27
jgalt212 wrote: post #25

And 99% of VCs have climaxed to ChatGPT.

Just wait for the flood of hedge funds that use "next generation ai-driven modelling" thats actually just a 23 year old fresh out of school typing into chatgpt what stocks to pick with their clients money for today.

And what do you know, I guess JP Morgan beat me to market with the idea:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/25/jpmorgan-develops-ai-investm...

Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it

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Post by sesteel »

MrFoof wrote: post #14
crims0n wrote: post #7

Wow that is significantly more than I would have guessed. Fun little comparison, it took until 1996 for 14% of North Americans to have used the internet. https://ourworldindata.org/internet

To be fair, internet adoption rates in the 90s was largely a function of ISP pricing regime changes. I think it was 1995 when WOW!, which was a subsidiary of CompuServe, offered unlimited hours for $15/month. AOL followed shortly thereafter. Prior to that it was something like $4-6/hour, usually at only 14.4kbps - 28.8kbps. Going from 2.5 - 4 hours a month to a household being able to easily surpass 100 hours a month…

My exposure to the internet came via MTV in 1994. I got a call at the house one day and they offered to pay for our internet if I agreed to comment on music videos in an online chatroom. I got free CompuServe for a year and a t-shirt.
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