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Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Post by dougmwne »

I think we all here at HN will inevitably underestimate the impact of putting GPT into Bing. We may have been playing with GPT for years, but it has just been gift-wrapped and delivered to hundreds of millions in their default Windows browser. I’m expecting it to blow grandma’s mind.

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Post by jimrandomh »

This is undeniably cool and impressive, but, I think proceeding down this research path, at this pace, is quite irresponsible.

The primary effect of OpenAI's work has been to set off an arms race, and the effect of that is that humanity no longer has the ability to make decisions about how fast and how far to go with AGI development.

Obviously this isn't a system that's going to recursively self-improve and wipe out humanity. But if you extrapolate the current crazy-fast rate of advancement a bit into the future, it's clearly heading towards a point where this gets extremely dangerous.

It's good that they're paying lip service to safety/aligment, what actually matters, from a safety perspective, is the relative rates of progress in how well we can understand and control these language models, and how capable we make them. There is good research happening in language-model understanding/control, but it's happening slowly, compared to the rate of capability advances, and that's a problem.

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Post by p1esk »

dougmwne wrote: post #2

I think we all here at HN will inevitably underestimate the impact of putting GPT into Bing. We may have been playing with GPT for years, but it has just been gift-wrapped and delivered to hundreds of millions in their default Windows browser. I’m expecting it to blow grandma’s mind.

I've heard there are already 100M of ChatGPT users. The hype has been strong.

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Post by belval »

dougmwne wrote: post #2

I think we all here at HN will inevitably underestimate the impact of putting GPT into Bing. We may have been playing with GPT for years, but it has just been gift-wrapped and delivered to hundreds of millions in their default Windows browser. I’m expecting it to blow grandma’s mind.

Indeed, I was looking at the list of features and frankly it makes you want to use Edge + Bing as it removes the friction from going to the ChatGPT website entirely. You can ask it to write your LinkedIn posts, define itineraries, translate, etc... all with a simple natural language interface.

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Post by generalizations »

jimrandomh wrote: post #5

This is undeniably cool and impressive, but, I think proceeding down this research path, at this pace, is quite irresponsible. The primary effect of OpenAI's work has been to set off an arms race, and the effect of that is that humanity no longer has the ability to make decisions about how fast and how far to go with AGI development. Obviously this isn't a system that's going to recursively self-improve and wipe out…

It's a force multiplier. It can be used for good or bad. I'd rather that we democratize access to these tools - IMO it's better than an alternative where only megacorps have access and do what they like behind closed doors.

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Post by basch »

dougmwne wrote: post #2

I think we all here at HN will inevitably underestimate the impact of putting GPT into Bing. We may have been playing with GPT for years, but it has just been gift-wrapped and delivered to hundreds of millions in their default Windows browser. I’m expecting it to blow grandma’s mind.

This will be an event to look back on.

If the web has had 4 stages, html, ajax, video, mobile, this shift to moving past keyword search is the next revolution. Microsoft will be wise to quickly integrate this into Excel, PowerPoint.

This is also one of those "the world is not ready" type events. A lot of busywork exists and is predicated on the assumption these types of queries arent available at speed.

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Post by nradov »

jimrandomh wrote: post #5

This is undeniably cool and impressive, but, I think proceeding down this research path, at this pace, is quite irresponsible. The primary effect of OpenAI's work has been to set off an arms race, and the effect of that is that humanity no longer has the ability to make decisions about how fast and how far to go with AGI development. Obviously this isn't a system that's going to recursively self-improve and wipe out…

There's nothing irresponsible about it. There is no evidence that ChatGPT is a step towards AGI development. And even if it is, so what?

People made similar breathless claims about irresponsibility about every major innovation throughout history. The Catholic Church thought it was irresponsible to hand out printed books to commoners and teach them how to read.

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