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Nobody uses an abacus anymore. I use a calculator (well, Mathematica or scipy) to effortlessly solve problems that would be impossible to solve by hand. I appre

by evouga 4y ago

Nobody uses an abacus anymore. I use a calculator (well, Mathematica or scipy) to effortlessly solve problems that would be impossible to solve by hand. I appreciate, but don’t particularly understand or care about, the many decades of numerical analysis research that went into making scipy algorithms robust and efficient. ChatGPT is the most exciting thing to come out of CS in a long while. Forget all of the debate and angst about whether ChatGPT is “really” an AI and what its “real” capabilities are (and I squarely blame the AI community’s recent history of brazen overhype and self-promotion for this)—-it’s a red herring. Call it the most powerful Internet search engine ever invented, if you want. That alone will change the world. It will trivialize a lot of tasks that are currently laborious and burdensome. The hand-wringing I’m seeing about this reminds me a lot of the rise of the Internet in the 90s, or Wikipedia in the 00s… yes, we will need to rethink how we write software and we will need to rethink how we teach students. But getting hung up on the dangers of ChatGPT as a “competitive” too is to cling a bit too tightly to old paradigms about of how humans leverage technology that have never been rigid, even in our lifetime.

goatlover 4y ago
Will chatGPT be free to use as a search like Google is, and why hasn’t Google leveraged its own language model? What happens to websites when nobody visits anymore because their info is easily available in the search response?
- visarga 4y ago
  That will be interesting to see. I bet by 2030 few people will be seeing ads or websites unless they want to, most will get polite and helpful answers based on language models that use search engines under the hood. We'll eventually have our own models running on our computers, in privacy, and maybe a small index of text (few TB) for reference checking. This will create a new private space of creativity where we can't be tracked and advertised to.

by evouga 4y ago

goatlover 4y ago

Will chatGPT be free to use as a search like Google is, and why hasn’t Google leveraged its own language model? What happens to websites when nobody visits anymore because their info is easily available in the search response?

visarga 4y ago
That will be interesting to see. I bet by 2030 few people will be seeing ads or websites unless they want to, most will get polite and helpful answers based on language models that use search engines under the hood. We'll eventually have our own models running on our computers, in privacy, and maybe a small index of text (few TB) for reference checking. This will create a new private space of creativity where we can't be tracked and advertised to.