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They built a bot which can answer any number of questions, each of which would have needed some analyst time. Given that the analyst rotation was an entire day
by jhugo 4y ago
They built a bot which can answer any number of questions, each of which would have needed some analyst time. Given that the analyst rotation was an entire day once every N weeks, and the bot took 1 day to make, this is going to pay for itself after 1 week.
This all assumes that the bot doesn't need tweaking for every answer — i.e. it gets at least some answers right without needing modifications to the bot — which appears to be the case based on the examples in the post.
- freejazz 4y agoBut, generally and unless there is a glaringly wrong result, only an analyst is going to know if the bot is right or not... what exactly does that gain you?
- catothedev 4y agoIt gets you a really sophisticated 'auto-complete' feature
- freejazz 4y agoNot really. I'd guess that most people can tell if auto-complete is providing the answer they "wanted".
- kqr 4y agoMaybe it's not a position where it is critical that all answers are 100 % accurate. Maybe getting it right every once in a while is enough to pay for the GPT compute time, but not really for analyst time.
- anentropic 4y agoSeems like the issue would be you'd generally get results that 'look' right but would never know if they were actually right without going through and... analysing them
- kqr 4y agoI'm saying there are applications where you don't have to know! As long as the fraction incorrect is less than 50 % and you have 2:1 odds on the consequences you don't have to know which 50 % are incorrect.
- freejazz 4y agoReally? Then why pay for the thing in the first place. Why keep the data and make the queries if the results don't actually matter? I'm impressed that you have the ability to envision such a possibility, perhaps you can use that ability to come up with something reasonably likely as opposed to "conceptually possible".
- kqr 4y agoI'm trying to think of easy examples. You're right that none obvious come to mind. I'm sure there is a sweetspot where we can make more money from cheap-but-sometimes-wrong GPT queries than paying for an analyst to be more definitively correct, but I'm tired and a bit fuzzy on the exact parameters. I'll continue to think about it and write something up!
- freejazz 4y agoHard to imagine a business model where you sell that data that is only right 60% of the time. Maybe in a world where the other best data is even less reliable.
- moonchrome 4y agoIf you're OK with garbage data you don't need ChatGPT - you can probably make up plausible data on your own. Unless you're building some lorem ipsum stuff.