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Post by rollcat »

paool wrote: post #527
straydusk wrote: post #472

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Comparing this to blockchain and Web3 is fucking hilarious. Web3 literally has like no real use case, LLM tech has a billion. It literally passes the Turing test.

No use case? How are AI agents going to open up a credit card or bank account? You think the government will grant them a SSN? It's a good thing we have a Internet native, programmable money, that is permissionless, near instant, and already supports USD(c).

As a bystander watching the world burn, I find it hilarious that you're both opposing and arguing against the other's chosen planet-incinerator.

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Post by JackMorgan »

eru wrote: post #474
wat10000 wrote: post #196

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It may not be the absolute most useless, but it's awfully niche. You can use it to transfer money if you live somewhere with a crap banking system. And it's very useful for certain kinds of crime. And that's about it, after almost two decades. Plenty of other possibilities have been proposed and attempted, but nothing has actually stuck. (Remember NFTs? That was an amusing few weeks.) The technology is interesting an…

Gambling! That's actually the number one use case by far. Far beyond eg buying illicit substances. Regular money is much better for that. Matt Levine (of Money Stuff fame) came up with another use case in a corporate setting: in many companies, especially banks, their systems are fragmented and full of technical debt. As a CEO it's hard to get workers and shareholders excited about a database cleanup. But for a time,…

This is so true, from 2018-2021 my internal banking product was able to use blockchain hype to clean up a lot of our database schema. Our CTO was rubber stamping everything with the words blockchain and our customers were beating down the door to throw money at it.

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Post by ensocode »

gyomu wrote: post #539
salviati wrote: post #536

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I'm not sure I understand your point. Is there any conversation where this behaviour occurred that you feel comfortable sharing? I haven't observed it, and I'd be curious to understand if I've missed it, or if me and you evaluate things differently.

Their point is that ChatGPT is clearly maximizing for engagement with the product, rather than working as a straightforward tool that aims to solve your problem at hand as fast and efficiently as possible. The decision to begin every response with “that’s a fascinating observation” and end every response with “want me to do X?” is a clear decision by PMs at OpenAI. Poster is questioning what might motivate those deci…

Exactly this. Thanks for clarifying. It is the Want me to do X? thing that makes me think why would you ask? Further on the Pulse feature: Why would you start a conversation?

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Post by ensocode »

pembrook wrote: post #532
latexr wrote: post #512

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Don’t forget that Sam Altman is also the cryptocurrency scammer who wants your biometric information. The goal was and will always be personal wealth and power, not helping others. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi... https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...

I lol'd at this. And he eats babies! Yea, humans tend to optimize for their own individual success. Do you not?

You are right, we all do at some point. Further I think it is OpenAIs right to do so as they invented the product. But in this case I feel even more gaslighted. It's as with the internet as a whole. A great invention for society but pretty much unusable or misused as products are designed for those people success.

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Post by Fade_Dance »

luc_ wrote: post #493
jsheard wrote: post #76

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> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.

We're choosing to offload processing that our brain could be doing but we're too lazy to do it or the perceived value for us to do it is. I think there are consequences to this especially as we give the machine free information of how we twist and turn it into actually understanding what we mean. Interesting to consider that if our first vibecode prompt isn't what we actually want; it can train on how we direct it fu…

The majority of people seem to offload most of their thinking as is, and actively avoid things like critical thinking, confronting their own biases, seeking push-back against their own beliefs, etc.

As with many other technologies, AI can be an enabler of this, or it can be used as a tool to empower and enhance learning and personal growth. That ultimately depends on the human to decide. One can dramatically accelerate personal and professional growth using these tools.

Admittedly the degree to which one can offload tasks is greatly increased with this iteration, to the extent that at times you can almost seem like offloading your own autonomy. But many people already exist in this state, exclusively parroting other people's opinions without examining them, etc.

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Post by guy4261 »

Oh, just let two instances chat with each other and either let me read the conversation logs or have them present me what they learned/came up with since I've last checked on them. And that would be the end of all it all.

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Post by sakisv »

So, this is Google Now but instead of one company having access to the data on their systems, now you're giving access to your data from different companies/sources to OpenAI.

(I do miss Google Now, it really did feel like the future)

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