But loads of crypto-bro types will make millions selling ChatGPT "modernization consulting", so if you're looking to make a quick buck, highly recommend.
The people I see most enthusiastic about the current AI development are not the technologist and developers, but people who aren't involved in tech and doesn't code. There's already adverts on social media for ChatGPT AI services of various trustworthiness. They claim their AIs can construct and implement “the” winning trading algorithms for anyone, for a fee, of course.
This issue isn't on GPT per se, but many can't yet see the difference between plausible applications and those which aren't. With each fantastical story about what ChatGPT managed to do, it's hard to blame them.
It doesn't give out reliable information and its "creativity" is questionable. Most of the excitement about it has to do with anthropomorphizing a robot that "feels" like an intelligent conversation partner, but it's not. Beyond toys, that is.
Similar to crypto. It isn't actually useful as a currency or to store value. Most of the excitemeny had to do with fake "freedom" dreams of the anarchically-leaning crowd and misunderstandings of what it is and isn't. Beyond toys, that is.
I see lots of parallels actually.
Literally no one I know that's excited about ChatGPT cares even one bit about the conversation aspect. No one I know is excited by the fact that it's a robot to talk to... They are excited by the fact that you can feed it code and errors and it can debug for you or you can give it code and it can write relevant documentation. Or you can give it tabular data and it can make charts and do basic analysis...
If you can't see the utility then maybe you should question your own creativity.
When you start using it, it tells you it’s a research project.
Even in its current form, it’s useful for a narrow set of uses.
It’s entirely conceivable that ChatGPT successors will be able to incorporate signals of fact vs opinion, and also authoritativeness of a source, into their training.
So yeah, ChatGPT is a toy, but that’s not bad for a research demo. But it has a lot of potential, and can help people in practical ways as it improves.
Imo the largest holdback is context. I have some problems that would be amazingly well solved if i could hand gpt3 a whole large document and ask it questions about the document.
Re: Tesla autopilot. I think this is the more serious. Obviously I'm speculating. It is definitely possible that GPT is one more example of AI doing cool tricks, and convincing us that is it farther advanced than it is.
That said, I don't think this is another Tesla autopilot for two reasons.
Reason one is robotics. Autopilot is robotics and robotics sucks. It's incredibly difficult, frustratingly physical and painfully hard to do the last 20%. The economics is even worse. It's very rare that robotics finds the unit volume necessary to achieve realistic prices. When version 1 is a $10 million dollar replacement for a $50k employee, there's rarely a version 2. It's just very hard to move the ball forward in robotics.
Reason two is that GPT is a solution looking for problems. It's more general. Autopilot has one job: drive the car and do the robotaxi thing. There are few stepping stones. Mistakes can kill people and kill Tesla. It either does the job or doesn't, Elonmagic notwithstanding.
GPT just needs to do something useful, not any particular thing. It can be used in low stakes applications. It can be bolted on to stuff for shots and giggle. Marginal costs are already zero. Basically, it's software. Software spreads faster and easier.
It's pretty good if you want a summary of a topic, but every web page wants to give you in depth information assuming you're already an expert. For example "What gas is in double glazing?" or "Tell me how screws are made".
It's also good for more creative things, like "Write a story about an escapeologist". I now use it for ideas for bedtime stories for my son.
I wouldn't trust any numbers, or queries where the premise of the question is false though.
You can check out an open source demo I made if you want to play around with how search + GPT work - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/researcher .
AI will have a similar trajectory, IMO. It'll find a bunch of good use cases, but it won't be in predictable places, and the predictable ones won't be as useful as expected.
You guys will attribute anything under the sun to 'crypto-bros' at this point, it's HN's version of boomers 'must be the fault of the millennials,' which is ironic considering how many of you fall into the age group.
Furthermore, Sam Altman, former head of YC oversaw the funding of Coinbase which is now the largest crypto exchange in the US, and who himself tried to launch Worldcoin [0]. Which, yes is a (failed) crypto-currency and is also the head of OpenAI, which has created Dall-E and GPT.
Listen, I'm all for calling out scammers and have done it after over 10 years in this space, but the level of disillusion and absurd levels of paranoia amongst so many of you to constantly remind us all how 'crypto-bros' are lurking in every corner and under every rock just waiting to pounce on the opportunity to scam when in reality you are witnessing the creation of tech from these very same sectors and the people whose platforms you fear so much.
0: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/sam-altmans-worldcoin-want...
Most uses of ChatGPT will (at least initially) be around automating the easy stuff, and if it gets something wrong it'll be a mild annoyance.
"Here's a description of my product, give me 5 potential tag lines for it."
It's a great start for brain storming.
I think the main use case for pure LLMs will remain those already starting to be tackled by AI: low importance (or testable) information/opinion retrieval, low effort content generation, suggestion prompts and entertainment
(It'll use the same rhetorical question opening structure and cliche call to action close whether you're advertising products, countries, animals, products which exist or products which don't. This is just the most meta. The most noteworthy thing about the outputs apart from them being cliched and repetitive is its statements for why you should use ChatGPT's copywriting services are claims about ChatGPT which are obviously untrue...)
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Just generate 200 of those and test them to see if any of them standout.
The Utility in these models is not that they are perfect or better than humans at all times, but that it is very cheap and to generate something of value across many domains.
And the really expensive bit of copywriting is the failed conversions. A LLM which when prompted to generate an ad for a particular market is trained to produce something which looks as similar to the competition and as much like an ad as possible isn't likely to generate the highest conversions....
I would even say that one of the central characteristics of coding is corner case management.
Or stuff that isn't easy for humans, e.g. how to argue with insurance companies in a way that gets you what you want
Same, during the update it just kept crashing and afterward it just seem way too prone to errors to be usable; their have been funny prompts Ive seen thrown around but the novelty wore off just like it did with Dall-E as you saw how many attempts you had to make to get to something viable and more competitors came online: Stable Diffusion.
This will keep the AI hype going so I'm not complaining, as a person who studies AI/ML, but it's hardly the miracle they are making it out to be. Perhaps that changes with GPT4, but I fear that sourcing is now becoming critical and just like Co-pilot it will encounter a lot of scrutiny before they can monetize it properly and open source projects will emerge to take market share.