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Incredibly short sighted perspective. Chatgpt-backed tools will become the norm in the same way that every knowledge worker uses Google on a daily basis today.

by eachro 4y ago

Incredibly short sighted perspective. Chatgpt-backed tools will become the norm in the same way that every knowledge worker uses Google on a daily basis today. Note that I did not say that people will use it to replace search - search is but a small bit of how it can be used.

alpaca128 4y ago
I can see it helping with troubleshooting and quickly getting some code example, documentation or whatever without googling, if I didn't have to wait a minute for each answer. But calling that a paradigm shift is quite an exaggeration. The only thing ChatGPT is really reliable at is correct use of language. Everything else is fancy Lorem Ipsum to show off those capabilities. The answers make sense a lot of the time but the quality is simply too inconsistent for me to have a use for it. On one hand those are huge advancements but at the same time just another kind of software that doesn't work properly when I need it to.
- eachro 4y ago
  As an example: grammarly is a company that makes money off getting users to "correct use of language". They make millions per year and this is just one use case of ChatGPT. Other use cases: copilot , AI personal assistant/scheduler, research summarizer (ex: Ought). Each of these is a multi million dollar business at worst. Let's not forget that this is iteration 1 of the technology. It is only going to get better and better. The fact that it can already do all these independent tasks without having seen additional data for the task is a complete game changer.
  - alpaca128 4y ago
    I wouldn't call copilot a business until there's reasonable certainty that use of it can't get you sued. This is a topic right now in courts and the question isn't even if Microsoft and others have violated countless copyrights - they have - but whether they can get through with it. > The fact that it can already do all these independent tasks without having seen additional data for the task is a complete game changer There are some impressive examples, yes, but ironically they aren't among the ones getting hyped. Right now AI is only usable for one kind of application: where a few incorrect results don't matter at all. That means for me projects like Copilot are out - if I want buggy code I can just write it myself, and at least I understand my own code. ChatGPT quickly falls apart when you actually start testing it for something productive. I don't doubt others have some limited uses for it.

by eachro 4y ago

alpaca128 4y ago

I can see it helping with troubleshooting and quickly getting some code example, documentation or whatever without googling, if I didn't have to wait a minute for each answer. But calling that a paradigm shift is quite an exaggeration. The only thing ChatGPT is really reliable at is correct use of language. Everything else is fancy Lorem Ipsum to show off those capabilities. The answers make sense a lot of the time but the quality is simply too inconsistent for me to have a use for it. On one hand those are huge advancements but at the same time just another kind of software that doesn't work properly when I need it to.

eachro 4y ago
As an example: grammarly is a company that makes money off getting users to "correct use of language". They make millions per year and this is just one use case of ChatGPT. Other use cases: copilot , AI personal assistant/scheduler, research summarizer (ex: Ought). Each of these is a multi million dollar business at worst. Let's not forget that this is iteration 1 of the technology. It is only going to get better and better. The fact that it can already do all these independent tasks without having seen additional data for the task is a complete game changer.
- alpaca128 4y ago
  I wouldn't call copilot a business until there's reasonable certainty that use of it can't get you sued. This is a topic right now in courts and the question isn't even if Microsoft and others have violated countless copyrights - they have - but whether they can get through with it. > The fact that it can already do all these independent tasks without having seen additional data for the task is a complete game changer There are some impressive examples, yes, but ironically they aren't among the ones getting hyped. Right now AI is only usable for one kind of application: where a few incorrect results don't matter at all. That means for me projects like Copilot are out - if I want buggy code I can just write it myself, and at least I understand my own code. ChatGPT quickly falls apart when you actually start testing it for something productive. I don't doubt others have some limited uses for it.