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With Wolfram plugin ChatGPT is going to become a Math genius. OpenAI is moving fast to make sure their first-mover advantage doesn't go to waste.
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Consider reading The Botany of Desire. It doesn't need to experience an emotion of wanting in order to effectively want things. Corn doesn't experience a feeling of wanting, and yet it has manipulated us even into creating a lot of it, doing some serious damage to ourselves and our long-term prospects simply by being useful and appealing. The blockchain doesn't experience wanting, yet it coerced us into burning count…
Extending agency to corn or a blockchain is even more of a stretch than extending it to ChatGPT. Corn has properties that have resulted from random chance and selection. It hasn't chosen to have certain mutations to be more appealing to humans; humans have selected the ones with the mutations those individual humans were looking for. "Corn is the benefactor"? Sure, insomuch as "continuing to reproduce at a species le…
The level of irresponsibility at play here is off the scale. Those running ChatGPT would do well to consider the future repercussions of their actions not in terms of technology but in terms of applicable law.
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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.
It's ironic that a few months ago Amazon laid off parts of the Alexa team and 'conversational' was considered failed. Then ChatGPT, etc happened. What Alexa wanted to build with Alexa skills, ChatGPT does much more effortlessly. It's also an interesting case study. Alexa foundationally never changed. Whereas OpenAI is a deeply invested, basically skunkworks, project with backers that were willing to sink significant…
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IMO you won't even need to build the app, you'll just provide a data model and some natural language descriptions of what you want your product to do.
That’s how this plugin system works already.
If you live in SF and have gone out to casual bars or restaurants, you meet/hear people talking about ChatGPT. In particular, I've been hearing a lot of people talking about their startups being "a UI using ChatGPT under the hood to help you with X". But I'm starting to get the feeling that OpenAI will eat their lunches. It's tried and true and it worked for Amazon. If OpenAI becomes the AI platform of choice, I wond…
And dont get me startet on non-tech friends and family. I think we are taking a leap that will let the digital world of 2022 look like amish livestyle.
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>if they don’t build it first someone else somewhere else will and is that really what you want!? Most likely the runner-up would be open source so yes.
There are already 3 or 4 runners-up and they're all big tech companies.
Smart way to remain the funnel owner. Let everyone build a plugin, before they integrate your product into theirs.
They have a window of less than 6 month to create a monopoly before their tech get commoditized. The play is well know: create a marketplace with customers and vendors like Amazon, Facebook, Google. But with GPT-4 training finished last summer they had plenty of time for strategy.
that's if competitors catch up on quality
The level of irresponsibility at play here is off the scale. Those running ChatGPT would do well to consider the future repercussions of their actions not in terms of technology but in terms of applicable law.
They are more likely to think of them on terms of their future power, incliding the power to ignore or alter law.
We're about to enter an age where being a tech person is a stigma that you won't be able to wash away. Untold millions will hate all of us collectively without a care about which side of this debate you were on.