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It's really over the top hype the likes of which we haven't seen since self driving, blockchain/bitcoin, etc. I suspect in a year there will be some interestin

It's really over the top hype the likes of which we haven't seen since self driving, blockchain/bitcoin, etc. I suspect in a year there will be some interesting uses of LLMs but all of the 'this changes EVERYTHING' pie in the sky thinking will be back down to earth.

baq 4y ago
Get this thing running in a tight loop with an internal monologue in a car and you'll mostly solve self driving.
akavi 4y ago
The difference is unlike self-driving and crypto, LLMs are providing value to people _today_. In my personal life, GPT4 is a patient interlocutor to ask about nerdy topics that are annoying to google (eg, yesterday I asked it "What's the homologue of the caudofemoralis in mammals?", and a long convo about the subtleties of when it is and isn't ok to use "gè" as the generic classifier in Mandarin.) Professionally, it's great for things like "How do I recursively do a search and replace `import "foo" from "bar"` to `import "baz" from "buzz"`, or "Pull out the names of functions defined in this chunk of scala code". This is without tighter integrations like Copilot or the ones linked to above.
- qbasic_forever 4y ago
  Let's see where it is in a year... People thought Alexa, Siri, etc. would change everything. Amazon sunk 14 billion into Alexa alone. And yet it never generated any money as a business for them. ChatGPT is just an evolution of those tools and interactions. For your professional use how do you know it's giving you non-buggy code? I would be very skeptical of what it provides--I'm not betting my employment on its quality of results.
  - rvnx 4y ago
    Not at all. Alexa, Google Now and Siri always been gadgets similar to Microsoft's Office Clippy. They had basic answers and pre-recorded jokes, nothing that interesting, mostly gimmicks. You couldn't have a conversation where you feel the computer is smarter than you. It was more like "Tip of the day"-level of interaction.
  - MagicMoonlight 4y ago
    Alexa and siri were always trash. They can’t even do basic things. Nobody thought they were good, they were just shilled so that the chinese/advertisers could have a mic in every house
  - unshavedyak 4y ago
    The thing is people wanted Alexa/Siri/Assistant to be what ChatGPT is today. You're seeing the hype that all those Assistants drummed up for years paying off for a company which just ate their lunch. I wouldn't even consider buying Siri/Alexa/Assistant, yet here i am with a $20/m sub and i'd pay incrementally more depending on the features/offerings.
sergiotapia 4y ago
NFTs never provided a single use case. It was always some bullshit to pretend it's valuable to rugpull people. ChatGPT is useful today for real use cases. It's tangible!

baq 4y ago

Get this thing running in a tight loop with an internal monologue in a car and you'll mostly solve self driving.

akavi 4y ago

The difference is unlike self-driving and crypto, LLMs are providing value to people _today_. In my personal life, GPT4 is a patient interlocutor to ask about nerdy topics that are annoying to google (eg, yesterday I asked it "What's the homologue of the caudofemoralis in mammals?", and a long convo about the subtleties of when it is and isn't ok to use "gè" as the generic classifier in Mandarin.) Professionally, it's great for things like "How do I recursively do a search and replace `import "foo" from "bar"` to `import "baz" from "buzz"`, or "Pull out the names of functions defined in this chunk of scala code". This is without tighter integrations like Copilot or the ones linked to above.

qbasic_forever 4y ago
Let's see where it is in a year... People thought Alexa, Siri, etc. would change everything. Amazon sunk 14 billion into Alexa alone. And yet it never generated any money as a business for them. ChatGPT is just an evolution of those tools and interactions. For your professional use how do you know it's giving you non-buggy code? I would be very skeptical of what it provides--I'm not betting my employment on its quality of results.
- rvnx 4y ago
  Not at all. Alexa, Google Now and Siri always been gadgets similar to Microsoft's Office Clippy. They had basic answers and pre-recorded jokes, nothing that interesting, mostly gimmicks. You couldn't have a conversation where you feel the computer is smarter than you. It was more like "Tip of the day"-level of interaction.
- MagicMoonlight 4y ago
  Alexa and siri were always trash. They can’t even do basic things. Nobody thought they were good, they were just shilled so that the chinese/advertisers could have a mic in every house
- unshavedyak 4y ago
  The thing is people wanted Alexa/Siri/Assistant to be what ChatGPT is today. You're seeing the hype that all those Assistants drummed up for years paying off for a company which just ate their lunch. I wouldn't even consider buying Siri/Alexa/Assistant, yet here i am with a $20/m sub and i'd pay incrementally more depending on the features/offerings.

sergiotapia 4y ago

NFTs never provided a single use case. It was always some bullshit to pretend it's valuable to rugpull people. ChatGPT is useful today for real use cases. It's tangible!