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Ask HN: Will ChatGPT replace social media, Wikipedia, and news sites?

2 points by amichail 4y ago

Its answers are often sufficient and it seems to know just what you are asking.

andsoitis 4y ago
Where does ChatGPT get its input data from that it turns into responses / "knowledge"? Humans create it in the first place. Without human creation, ChatGPT won't have anything to work with.
- amichail 4y ago
  But if most people stop visiting the rest of the web because of ChatGPT, then this human knowledge creation could slow down dramatically. Maybe human knowledge creation could be done while chatting with ChatGPT instead.
  - andsoitis 4y ago
    Can you envision a world in which you and I won't have this discussion, but instead limit our conversation to a bot somewhere instead of other humans?
    - amichail 4y ago
      You would be having discussions with humanity as a whole via the chatbot instead of specific people.
      - andsoitis 4y ago
        Interesting to ponder. Three questions that come to mind if this were to happen: a) Would the humanity chatbot have an opinion of its own? Or would it purely be an amalgam of many opinions and facts? Given (a): b) How would it incorporate a counter position I provide? Presumably the humans who fed in the original counter position would not have been convinced, does it run new ideas by a sample of humans to get input to help judge relative merit? Would it have the ability to counter sabotage? Given (a) and (b): c) Would there be a multitude of humanity chatbots or just one (think the Borg)?
    - qup 4y ago
      You're already interacting with a lot of bots on the net. They'll increasingly become more invisible. I think human interaction might move offline a lot, or to spaces like video chat where bots (currently) cannot fake it.
mikewarot 4y ago
Why would it? I see no way that a chat-bot can replace a human audience, with a diverse set of real-world reputations, motivations and consequences.
codegeek 4y ago
Robots have been around in some shape and form for decades. I doubt anythng can replace humans completely. Even if some things can be replaced by bots, they may have issues that would need human intervention anyway. Case in point. Stores with automated checkout counters. They still need humans to be around to help in case it goes bad. Some locations are even getting rid of those due to issues with theft etc. having said this, we can clearly see that humans are being replaced by tools/bots/machines to some extent but not in entirety. For example, you may need 2 humans to manage a fleet of 50 machines that do the same work that required may be 200 humans to do manually earlier.
tamaharbor 4y ago
ChatGPT sounds much like blockchain, NFTs, etc to me. Much ado about nothing.
gardenfelder 4y ago
No

2 points by amichail 4y ago

Its answers are often sufficient and it seems to know just what you are asking.

Where does ChatGPT get its input data from that it turns into responses / "knowledge"? Humans create it in the first place. Without human creation, ChatGPT won't have anything to work with.

amichail 4y ago
But if most people stop visiting the rest of the web because of ChatGPT, then this human knowledge creation could slow down dramatically. Maybe human knowledge creation could be done while chatting with ChatGPT instead.
- andsoitis 4y ago
  Can you envision a world in which you and I won't have this discussion, but instead limit our conversation to a bot somewhere instead of other humans?
  - amichail 4y ago
    You would be having discussions with humanity as a whole via the chatbot instead of specific people.
    - andsoitis 4y ago
      Interesting to ponder. Three questions that come to mind if this were to happen: a) Would the humanity chatbot have an opinion of its own? Or would it purely be an amalgam of many opinions and facts? Given (a): b) How would it incorporate a counter position I provide? Presumably the humans who fed in the original counter position would not have been convinced, does it run new ideas by a sample of humans to get input to help judge relative merit? Would it have the ability to counter sabotage? Given (a) and (b): c) Would there be a multitude of humanity chatbots or just one (think the Borg)?
  - qup 4y ago
    You're already interacting with a lot of bots on the net. They'll increasingly become more invisible. I think human interaction might move offline a lot, or to spaces like video chat where bots (currently) cannot fake it.

mikewarot 4y ago

Why would it? I see no way that a chat-bot can replace a human audience, with a diverse set of real-world reputations, motivations and consequences.

codegeek 4y ago

Robots have been around in some shape and form for decades. I doubt anythng can replace humans completely. Even if some things can be replaced by bots, they may have issues that would need human intervention anyway. Case in point. Stores with automated checkout counters. They still need humans to be around to help in case it goes bad. Some locations are even getting rid of those due to issues with theft etc. having said this, we can clearly see that humans are being replaced by tools/bots/machines to some extent but not in entirety. For example, you may need 2 humans to manage a fleet of 50 machines that do the same work that required may be 200 humans to do manually earlier.

tamaharbor 4y ago

ChatGPT sounds much like blockchain, NFTs, etc to me. Much ado about nothing.

gardenfelder 4y ago