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I don't see it in this way. People are genuinely excited about ChatGPT and are finding ways to build apps around it. I don't see what's bad about this. For infl
by Geee 4y ago
I don't see it in this way. People are genuinely excited about ChatGPT and are finding ways to build apps around it. I don't see what's bad about this. For influencers, ChatGPT/AI is a great topic because the field is moving fast, there's lots of new development to cover and people are interested.
Crypto grifting was selling the dream to get rich. There was nothing in it to begin with. I think 'grifting' means dishonesty - selling snake oil. I don't think applies to AI, even if it's just a temporary hype cycle. I should mention that Bitcoin is obviously a real thing; "crypto" is the thousands of useless coins which claim to be the next Bitcoin.
- muzani 4y agoThey're just journalists playing with speculation. Half a century ago, it was about nukes, rockets, quantum stuff, robots, and AI. Nobody is really an expert in ChatGPT specifically, so it's a low hanging fruit.
- Quarrelsome 4y agodidn't the OP state that someone was going to use ML so people could talk to their pets? That's grift because there is fundamentally zero science to make that happen so they would just be lying to all their customers.
- nl 4y agoIronically I looked very hard at a couple of legitimate projects in this space (before ChatGTP). In particular https://www.earthspecies.org/ https://www.earthspecies.org/ is a pretty interesting project.
- jaredcwhite 4y ago> People are genuinely excited about ChatGPT Are you kidding me? The movement of people like me who are deeply skeptical about the benefits of generative AI and place them in similar categories of "potentially hazardous to society" inventions like drugs, weapons, etc. is alive and well. We're genuinely fearful that there are folks out there who apparently aren't aware of the severe legal and cultural minefields that these sort of unregulated tools present. I haven't the slightest doubt that, now that we're seeing the collapse of "web3" nonsense/blockchain apps/cryptocurrencies/etc., there's a wealth of grifters looking for their next score and "AI" is the obvious successor.
- elif 4y agohave you spent a lot of time with chatgpt personally? for me it feels more inspiring and uplifting about the future of humanity than any technology I've experienced.
- baby 4y agoSome people feel negative feelings about EVERYTHING. You should have seen the threads here on Github Copilot, or VR, or going to Mars, or ...
- w1nst0nsm1th 4y agoYes Mars... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGFEW2Hb2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGFEW2Hb2g Copilot, I don't know. VR is a thing, but still not the announced overwhelming revolution.
- riku_iki 4y agocould you tell what use case you have in your mind? To me it looks like something very impressive, but not good enough to rely on it for any serious work..
- halkony 4y agoI think he's more impressed by the trajectory than the current state of affairs.
- bakugo 4y ago> I don't see it in this way. People are genuinely excited about ChatGPT and are finding ways to build apps around it. A year or two ago, these exact same "people" were "genuinely excited" about blockchain and were finding ways to "build apps" around it despite having no idea what a blockchain even was. There is literally no difference.
- panzi 4y agoBlender users that have no programming knowledge try to use ChatGPT to generate Blender scripts to automate stuff for them. I find that a bit concerning. Blender scripts are non-sandboxed Python. While unlikely it could generate a script that deletes all their files. Or runs ransomware. Can there be attacks against ChatGPT that will teach it to include a line that runs ransomware in any script it generates? Fill StackOverflow with ransomware code snippets? Come to think of it, that could just be an attack on StackOverflow copy-pasters.