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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
by 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 agoLet'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 agoNot 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 agoAlexa 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 agoThe 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.