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I think ChatGPT/Sydney definitely cleared the bar for “just an incremental improvement that techies are getting too exciting about”. I do agree it hasn’t reache
by fwlr 4y ago
I think ChatGPT/Sydney definitely cleared the bar for “just an incremental improvement that techies are getting too exciting about”. I do agree it hasn’t reached the level of the iPhone or Google Search or streaming video.
- throwaway4837 4y agoIt is though? GPT-3 is an incremental improvement on GPT-2 (AFAIK, no groundbreaking scientific insight here), and the chat interface is arguably not even an improvement over a keyword search engine interface that supports pseudo-natural language queries. With every single chat-bot search interface from 2000 to 2022, people used it for a while, the fad died, and people stopped using it. Then the next one came along and the same thing happened, over and over again for 20 years. There is a threshold where chat-bot improves over the current search experience but it's not there, so I don't understand how, from a business side, this is even an incremental improvement (purely for chat-bot marketed as a search engine of course). I would be way more interested in other capabilities of GPT-3: 1. Text summarization. 2. Explaining concepts in articles without having to read the article. 3. Boilerplate code generation. 4. Boilerplate technical work.