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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by 015a »

jyrkesh wrote: post #46

Everyone's been talking about how ChatGPT will disrupt search, but looking at the launch partners, I think this has the potential to completely subvert the OS / App Store layer. On some level, how much do I need an OpenTable app if I can use voice/text input and a multi-modal response that will ultimately book my reservation? Not saying mobile's going away, but this could be the thing that does to mobile what mobile…

I'm not sure if the word "subvert" is right; the OS is still there, the App Store is still there, and nothing they've demonstrated will measurably impact revenue from these sources (the iOS App Store's largest source of revenue, by far, is games. Some estimates put Games as like 25% of all of Apple's revenue).

I think there's also a global challenge (actually, opportunity IS the right word here) that by-and-large the makers of operating systems aren't the ones ahead in the language AI game right now. Bard/Google may have been close six months ago, but six months is an eternity in this space. Siri/Apple is so far behind that its not looking likely they can catch up. About a week ago a Windows 11 update was shipped which added a Bing AI button to the Windows 11 search bar; but Windows doesn't really drive the zeitgeist.

I wonder if 2023/4 is the year for Microsoft to jump back into the smartphone OS game. There may finally be something to the idea of a more minimalist, smaller voice-first smartphone that falls back on the web for application experiences, versus app-first.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by serf »

chatmasta wrote: post #418
jehb wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The faster we build the future, the better. Why? Getting to "the future" isn't a goal in and of itself. It's just a different state with a different set of problems, some of which we've proven that we're not prepared to anticipate or respond to before they cause serious harm.

When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition, especially when the costs of doing it are so low that anyone with sufficient GPU power and knowledge of the latest research can get pretty close to the cutting edge. So the best we can hope for is that someone ethical is the first to advance that technological progress. I hope you wouldn't ad…

> When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress?

chemical and biological weapons / human cloning / export restriction / trade embargoes / nuclear rockets / phage therapy / personal nuclear power

I mean.. the list goes on forever, but my point is that humanity pretty routinely reduces research efforts in specific areas.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by cwxm »

swyx wrote: post #204
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #110

I'm boggled at the plugin setup documentation. It's basically: 1. Define the API exactly with OpenAPI. 2. Write a couple of English sentences explaining what the API is for and what the methods do. 3. You're done, that's it, ChatGPT can figure out when and how to use it correctly now. Holy cow.

the 3min video is OpenAI leveraging ChatGPT to write OpenAPI to extend OpenAI ChatGPT. what a world we live in.

which video are you referring to?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by worldsayshi »

rescripting wrote: post #260
worldsayshi wrote: post #243

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> There is no way to defend against a superior hostile actor That's part of my reasoning. That's why we should make sure that we have built a non-hostile relationship with AI before that point.

Probably futile. An AGI by definition is capable of self improvement. Given enough time (maybe not even that much time) it would be orders of magnitude smarter than us, just like we're orders of magnitude smarter than ants. Like an ant farm, it might keep us as pets for a time but just like you no longer have the ant farm you did when you were a child, it will outgrow us.

Right now AI is the ant. Later we'll be the ants. Perfect time to show how to treat ants.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by amrb »

chatmasta wrote: post #353
mk_stjames wrote: post #277

I have some odd feelings about this. It took less than a year to go from "of course it isn't hooked up to the internet in any way, silly!" to "ok.... so we hooked up up to the internet..." First is your API calls, then your chatgpt-jailbreak-turns-into-a-bank-DDOS-attack, then your "today it somehow executed several hundred thousand threads of a python script that made perfectly timed trades at 8:31AM on the NYSE whi…

Pshhh... I think it's awesome. The faster we build the future, the better. What annoys me is this is just further evidence that their "AI Safety" is nothing but lip-service, when they're clearly moving fast and breaking things. Just the other day they had a bug where you could see the chat history of other users! (Which, btw, they're now claiming in a modal on login was due to a "bug in an open source library" - anyo…

Agreed 100% OpenAI is a business now

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Post by seydor »

For expedia or an online shop it makes sense to pay openAI for the traffic. But how will a content website make money from this? "Tell me todays headlines" does not bring ad income. Will openAI be paying for this content?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by tharkun__ »

messe wrote: post #489
koheripbal wrote: post #465

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We are creating life. It's like giving birth to a new form of life. You should be proud to be alive when this happens. Act with goodness towards it, and it will probably do the same to you.

I’m not concerned about AI eliminating humanity, I’m concerned at what the immediate impact it’s going to have on jobs. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it if all menial labour and boring tasks can eventually be delegate to AI, but the time spent getting from here to there could be very rough.

A lot of problems in societies come from people having too much time with not enough to do. Working is a great distraction from those things. Of course we currently go in the other direction in the US especially with the overwork culture and needing 2 or 3 jobs and still not make ends meet.

I posit that if you suddenly eliminate all menial tasks you will have a lot of very bored drunk and stoned people with too much time on their hands than they know what to do with. Idle Hands Are The Devil's Playground.

And that's not a from here to there. It's also the there.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by messe »

whatusername wrote: post #498
chatmasta wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? It's simply an unrealistic proposition, especially when the costs of doing it are so low that anyone with sufficient GPU power and knowledge of the latest research can get pretty close to the cutting edge. So the best we can hope for is that someone ethical is the first to advance that technological progress. I hope you wouldn't ad…

> When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress? Nuclear weapons?

You get diminishing returns as they get larger though. And there has certainly been plenty of work done on delivery systems, which could be considered progress in the field.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by revelio »

splatzone wrote: post #488
koheripbal wrote: post #465

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We are creating life. It's like giving birth to a new form of life. You should be proud to be alive when this happens. Act with goodness towards it, and it will probably do the same to you.

After reading the propaganda campaign it wrote to encourage skepticism about vaccines, I’m much more worried about how this technology will be applied by powerful people, especially when combined with targeted advertising

None of the things it suggests are in any way novel or non-obvious though. People use these sorts of tricks both consciously and unconsciously when making arguments all the time, no AI needed.
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