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I have prompted chatgpt enough over the past months to see how it would work. I have used my playground for it to get it to indicate what it is talking about, f
by tluyben2 4y ago
I have prompted chatgpt enough over the past months to see how it would work. I have used my playground for it to get it to indicate what it is talking about, for instance and obviously, prefixing math content with /math but also /history, /media, /tech, /physics, /person etc.
Then you can send that to another service; pushing math to wolfram alpha (etc) makes chatgpt suddenly give perfect math answers and it works (it takes a bunch of hacks to ignore it’s confident lying part of answering equations). When we it names a person or location, it shows Wikipedia or maps or both etc.
In this way you use it’s bluffing powers without assuming (or even reading) it’s content; it returns articles etc (which can be wrong as well of course but at least you might know if it’s reputable or not).
I can easily see how bing or google would use something like this to search and return very relevant content, the queries might not be better than some people can create themselves with effort. However many people cannot create good queries and chatgpt creates good queries from extremely little input.
More importantly; it’s a conversation; you can fine tune the results. You can tell it that you meant the programming language, not oxidation when it shows completely bonkers results.
This will work and will work very well as far as I have been able to try. I cannot go further as I have no easy access to search engines without getting blocked immediately for automated querying.
Not sure how this is looking cost wise: chatgpt at scale will even hurt a company like MS for now. Having a million techies use it for some experimentation is a bit different than a billion+ users searching whatever.
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- bemmu 4y agoAgreed, this seems like the immediate future. Large language model which has access to a bunch of "widgets" that it can use to extend itself. I can see two types of such widgets. First type is info widgets which allow it access information outside of itself, like using a calculator by making it output something like {calc 1+1}, search wikipedia by {wiki something}, see the results of such a query and use that info in its output to the user. Second type is UI widgets that allow it to display different types of things to the user. There is already a kind of widget in ChatGPT, which is display of Markdown. But it's easy to imagine widgets for say showing coordinates on a map, or visualizing something else. Since there is a large number of such useful widgets, I'm guessing there will be an app store for them where developers can write their own widgets to extend it and make revenue based on how much they are used.
- tylergetsay 4y agoWhy not just write and execute code?
- thornewolf 4y agoSince gpt can occasionally get little bits of code wrong that ruin the result, having some prepackaged functionality can prove useful. If you want to play around with letting GPT execute code, feel free to checkout my github repo that uses telegram as a frontend for a code-executing GPT: https://github.com/thornewolf/gpt-3-execution https://github.com/thornewolf/gpt-3-execution
- rattray 4y agoI'm having a hard time following -- what are some example queries you put in? Sounds interesting!