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Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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You know we’re doomed when half the comments here are taking this seriously, and not as the satire it clearly is (1KB of state? come on people) Props to the OP for showing once again how lightheaded everybody gets while gently inhaling the GPT fumes…

I'd assume everyone else is also taking this as satire. There's no way any business will handle business logic to a black box.

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Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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Yes, I do. The point is we didn’t solve the general case, we just learned how to scale the specific case that was demoed in 2007. This is like building a ladder to the moon; it’ll get you closer, but it’ll never get you to the moon.

You are factually wrong. The general case is being solved. Self-driving systems are objectively better every year, and will eventually reach human level safety. You can literally watch cars self-driving in all kinds of places and conditions. Yes, they make mistakes. So do humans.

So when will these self-driving cars be ready for mass consumption? Because they're starting to sound like flying cars at this point. Yes, technically doable and there are always some working prototypes, but no real market, and not seen as practical.

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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post #45

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ChatGPT is great at pretending it knows its sh*t.

Seems pretty human to me.

had this exact conversation with a friend the other day : if all the people that are actually BSing for a job are replaced by ChatGPT, the economy is doomed.

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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But is GPT a web scale like MongoDB?

The idea is that chatGPT just writes the code, it would be still be hosted as usual. We’re going through a hype phase right now and i don’t believe chatGPT will completely replace devs or code will be written entirely with AI but i feel something will change for sure and something unexpected will come out of this

I don't think so? It sounds like the state of the app is being persisted via the chat history:

> We represented the state of the app as a json with some prepopulated entries which helped define the schema. Then we pass the prompt, the current state, and some user-inputted instruction/API call in and extract a response to the client + the new state.

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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Even if this is not 100% serious, it is really starting to feel like the ship computer from star trek is not too far away.

The closer we seem to get the farther we actually are. We're far away from AGI, if we even can reach it with our current approaches, but the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years

>We're far away from AGI, if we even can reach it with our current approaches, but the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years

This is an incredibly bold prediction that isn't supported by the opinions of the majority of people in the field and certainly doesn't have any real backing other than your gut.

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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post #63

You know we’re doomed when half the comments here are taking this seriously, and not as the satire it clearly is (1KB of state? come on people) Props to the OP for showing once again how lightheaded everybody gets while gently inhaling the GPT fumes…

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Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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post #70
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The closer we seem to get the farther we actually are. We're far away from AGI, if we even can reach it with our current approaches, but the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years

> the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years. This rings me a lot. It feels like the current generation AI companies/projects have been rewarded for making people believe the future is near. In reality, we're just driving towards the top of a local maxima for possible big money. We clearly won't reach AGI with the current LLM approaches, for example. (Perhaps, the…

>We clearly won't reach AGI with the current LLM approaches, for example.

Have any evidence to back this up? Scaling laws seem to show we aren't near a plateau and it's not clear what kind of capability GPT-4,5 or 6 may have.

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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post #80

I eagerly await the "GPT is all you need for the customer" articles. Why bother building a product for real customers when you can just build a product for an LLM to pretend it's paying you for?

How can I pay rent with this pretend-money?

In the Metaverse, of course.
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