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The rate of improvement with GPT has been staggering. In just January I spent a lot of time working with the API and almost everything I've done has been made

The rate of improvement with GPT has been staggering. In just January I spent a lot of time working with the API and almost everything I've done has been made easier over the past two months. They're really building a platform. Curious to see where this goes over the next couple of years.

mariojv 4y ago
I agree. Part of me wonders how much they're using GPT to improve itself.
- MagicMoonlight 4y ago
  When we were first breaking it people were wondering if the developers were sitting in threads looking for new exploits to block. Now I’m wondering if the system has been modifying itself to fix exploits…
  - int_19h 4y ago
    It does actually work. For some of the experiments I did with GPT-4, it made some mistakes because my initial prompt wasn't sufficiently precise. After discussing its mistakes with it, I asked it to write a better prompt that would prevent them. Sure enough, it did just that.
pcurve 4y ago
I just got access to Bard. I would hate to be Google leaders at the moment.
- revelio 4y ago
  It's incredible how Google started ahead and then shot themselves repeatedly in the face by granting so much internal power to dubious AI "ethicists". Whilst those guys were publicly Twitter-slapping each other, OpenAI were putting in place the foundations for this.
  - kenjackson 4y ago
    The issue wasn't/isn't AI ethicists. It's their incentive model. They simply have trouble understanding how this helps their business. Same reason why Blockbuster found themselves behind Netflix, despite having clear visibility to watch Netflix slowly walk up and eat their lunch right in front of them.
    - jimkleiber 4y ago
      Well, I'm curious, what is the business model of it? Just charge per 1k tokens or subscription? How do the plugins make money off this?
      - pcurve 4y ago
        that...without eroding their cash cow search business.
      - nunodonato 4y ago
        plugins dont need to make money, you are still using tokens and paying for those. the more plugins you use, the more conversation you also need and tokens
        jimkleiber 4y ago
        Yes, I think OpenAI has a business model here (token/subscriptions) but how do the external services make money? Will many of these apps be cannibalized by ChatGPT and other LLMs? For example, the Speak plugin for language teaching, at what point is ChatGPT good enough to do everything that Speak does?
        nemo44x 4y ago
        If your business is mostly reliant on their API then they will eat you. You need to differentiate by having access to something they do not.
      - IanCal 4y ago
Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
>> Curious to see where this goes over the next couple of years. Probably will make half of the HN users unemployed.

mariojv 4y ago

I agree. Part of me wonders how much they're using GPT to improve itself.

MagicMoonlight 4y ago
When we were first breaking it people were wondering if the developers were sitting in threads looking for new exploits to block. Now I’m wondering if the system has been modifying itself to fix exploits…
- int_19h 4y ago
  It does actually work. For some of the experiments I did with GPT-4, it made some mistakes because my initial prompt wasn't sufficiently precise. After discussing its mistakes with it, I asked it to write a better prompt that would prevent them. Sure enough, it did just that.

pcurve 4y ago

I just got access to Bard. I would hate to be Google leaders at the moment.

revelio 4y ago
It's incredible how Google started ahead and then shot themselves repeatedly in the face by granting so much internal power to dubious AI "ethicists". Whilst those guys were publicly Twitter-slapping each other, OpenAI were putting in place the foundations for this.
- kenjackson 4y ago
  The issue wasn't/isn't AI ethicists. It's their incentive model. They simply have trouble understanding how this helps their business. Same reason why Blockbuster found themselves behind Netflix, despite having clear visibility to watch Netflix slowly walk up and eat their lunch right in front of them.
  - jimkleiber 4y ago
    Well, I'm curious, what is the business model of it? Just charge per 1k tokens or subscription? How do the plugins make money off this?
    - pcurve 4y ago
      that...without eroding their cash cow search business.
    - nunodonato 4y ago
      plugins dont need to make money, you are still using tokens and paying for those. the more plugins you use, the more conversation you also need and tokens
      - jimkleiber 4y ago
        Yes, I think OpenAI has a business model here (token/subscriptions) but how do the external services make money? Will many of these apps be cannibalized by ChatGPT and other LLMs? For example, the Speak plugin for language teaching, at what point is ChatGPT good enough to do everything that Speak does?
        nemo44x 4y ago
        If your business is mostly reliant on their API then they will eat you. You need to differentiate by having access to something they do not.
    - IanCal 4y ago

Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago

>> Curious to see where this goes over the next couple of years. Probably will make half of the HN users unemployed.