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How so? ChatGPT is quite popular on HN and other similar tech-savvy spheres, but is still far from enjoying mainstream success. Maybe like 1% of students have

How so? ChatGPT is quite popular on HN and other similar tech-savvy spheres, but is still far from enjoying mainstream success. Maybe like 1% of students have used it yet, and for a month at most, so it's quite the hyperbole to say that it's been "affecting" them already. Or, conversely, if this kind of thing worries you today, you're in for a wild ride ...

londons_explore 4y ago
It's pretty widespread on tiktok in the student circles I'm in... And the fact openAI is still struggling to handle the load in peak hours 2 months after launch tells me they must be seeing pretty big user growth.
- nebula8804 4y ago
  Or they haven't properly designed their cloud arch to even moderately scale. We can obviously see their AI and CS talent, but do we have any gauge on their internal systems and IT talent? I've used ChatGPT maybe 3 times since launch and 2 out of 3 attempts resulted in a "come back later" type message. It would make sense to see which accounts are the heavy users and throttle them in favor of lightly used accounts but I guess they didn't think of that or decided against it for some reason?
  - mensetmanusman 4y ago
    In all likelihood GPT is not embarrassingly parallelizable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel This changes how easy it is to scale.
zwischenzug 4y ago
My son's (he's 17) peers are all using it for homework at school. Agree on the wild ride though. This is like the advent of the electronic calculator on maths study, but the difference here is everyone has got it at once.
- moralestapia 4y ago
  >This is like the advent of the electronic calculator on maths study ... Absolutely! And I honestly think it will be a net positive, after all. As others have pointed, with or without calculators, GPT or whatever, slackers gonna slack and those who take it seriously will have another great tool in their hands to do great things with it.

londons_explore 4y ago

It's pretty widespread on tiktok in the student circles I'm in... And the fact openAI is still struggling to handle the load in peak hours 2 months after launch tells me they must be seeing pretty big user growth.

nebula8804 4y ago
Or they haven't properly designed their cloud arch to even moderately scale. We can obviously see their AI and CS talent, but do we have any gauge on their internal systems and IT talent? I've used ChatGPT maybe 3 times since launch and 2 out of 3 attempts resulted in a "come back later" type message. It would make sense to see which accounts are the heavy users and throttle them in favor of lightly used accounts but I guess they didn't think of that or decided against it for some reason?
- mensetmanusman 4y ago
  In all likelihood GPT is not embarrassingly parallelizable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel This changes how easy it is to scale.

zwischenzug 4y ago

My son's (he's 17) peers are all using it for homework at school. Agree on the wild ride though. This is like the advent of the electronic calculator on maths study, but the difference here is everyone has got it at once.

moralestapia 4y ago
>This is like the advent of the electronic calculator on maths study ... Absolutely! And I honestly think it will be a net positive, after all. As others have pointed, with or without calculators, GPT or whatever, slackers gonna slack and those who take it seriously will have another great tool in their hands to do great things with it.