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> I'd never build anything dependent on these plugins You're thinking too long term. Based on my Twitter feed filled with AI gold rush tweets, the goal is to b

by raydev 4y ago

> I'd never build anything dependent on these plugins You're thinking too long term. Based on my Twitter feed filled with AI gold rush tweets, the goal is to build something/anything while hype is at its peak, and you can secure a a few hundred k or million in profits before the ground shifts underneath you. The playbook is obvious now: just build the quickest path to someone giving you money, maybe it's not useful at all! Someone will definitely buy because they don't want to miss out. And don't be too invested because it'll be gone soon anyway, OpenAI will enforce stronger rate limits or prices will become too steep or they'll nerf the API functionality or they'll take your idea and sell it themselves or you may just lose momentum. Repeat when you see the next opportunity.

plutonorm 4y ago
I'd not heard this on my tpot. But I absolutely agree, the ground is moving so fast and the power is so centralised that the only thing to do is spin up quickly make money, rinse and repeat. The seas will calm in a few years and then you can, maybe, make a longer term proposition.
- raydev 4y ago
  I've had to block so many influencer types regurgitating OpenAI marketing and showing the tiniest minimum demos. Many are already selling "prompt packages". Really feels like peak crypto spam right now.
  - xmprt 4y ago
    I think the big difference between this and crypto spam is how it impacts the people ignoring all the hype. I have seen crypto spam and open AI spam and while both are equally grifty, cryptocurrencies at their baseline have been completely useless despite being around for over a decade whereas GPT has already been somewhat useful for me.
    - pms 4y ago
      Honestly, what makes you feel convinced that the current AI wave will be so impactful, once you take away all the hype?
      - pixl97 4y ago
        Because I find it actually useful on doing things now.
        idkwhoiam 4y ago
        What do you use it for? As a web developer I use Github's Copilot and enjoy its assistance the most in unit tests. I haven't found any use case for ChatGPT yet. I get better & quicker results searching what I need on Google. I'm much quicker searching by keywords as opposed to putting together a full sentence for ChatGPT.
        sebzim4500 4y ago
        Yeah currently Copilot is way more useful than ChatGPT. That may change with plugins, we'll have to say. Either way though, Copilot is certainly a product of the 'current AI wave' that is being compared to crypto scams above.
        sailfast 4y ago
        Can you use it without worrying about getting sued because it's using licensed software under the hood to generate your tests without telling you? Wasn't sure how far their license agreements / guarantees had come...
        KineticLensman 4y ago
        I recently had to generate lots of short text descriptions of numerous different items in a taxonomy. ChatGPT successfully generated 'reasonable first draft' text that saved me a lot of time basic wordsmithing. I made several edits to make additional points or to change emphasis but overall it got me to the 80% stage very quickly. At home, a carpenter working at my house said that he is using ChatGPT to overcome problems associated with his dyslexia (e.g. when writing descriptions of the services his company offers). I hadn't even considered that use case.
  - yawnxyz 4y ago
    I pulled the plug and got a (free) prompt package on sales. Never done that in my life. It's like 300 prompts about various sales tools and terms I'd never heard of — even just getting the keywords is enough to set me off on a learning experience now, so love it or hate it, that was actually weirdly useful for me. (I had ZERO expectations when I clicked to download)
  - pms 4y ago
    Definitely!
- yla92 4y ago
  I am curious to find out more about those "prompt packages". Where can I see the list of them?
- eternalban 4y ago
  > The seas will calm in a few years and then Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud analogs. We are entirely fortunate that the interests of big tech (edge AI) and democratizing AI (we the little people) align to a sufficient degree. Decentralizing AI is -far- more important than decentralizing communication, imo. The get rich quick path of ‘gold rush’ (it works, tbh) could work against this collective self interest if it ends up hyping centralized solutions. If you are on the sideline, the least you could do just cheer (hype :) the decentralized, democratized, and freely accessible candidates.
BonoboIO 4y ago
AI NFTs :D
mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
Replace AI in your text with crypto and its like history repeating itself. Instead of hearing about ICO's we will be hearing about GPT bots/plugins. Will the hype train and gold rush noise suffocate any burgeoning tech from finding the light of day (again)?
- michaelbrave 4y ago
  not only that but it gave me .com crash flashbacks too
- Bud 4y ago
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by raydev 4y ago

plutonorm 4y ago

I'd not heard this on my tpot. But I absolutely agree, the ground is moving so fast and the power is so centralised that the only thing to do is spin up quickly make money, rinse and repeat. The seas will calm in a few years and then you can, maybe, make a longer term proposition.

raydev 4y ago
I've had to block so many influencer types regurgitating OpenAI marketing and showing the tiniest minimum demos. Many are already selling "prompt packages". Really feels like peak crypto spam right now.
- xmprt 4y ago
  I think the big difference between this and crypto spam is how it impacts the people ignoring all the hype. I have seen crypto spam and open AI spam and while both are equally grifty, cryptocurrencies at their baseline have been completely useless despite being around for over a decade whereas GPT has already been somewhat useful for me.
  - pms 4y ago
    Honestly, what makes you feel convinced that the current AI wave will be so impactful, once you take away all the hype?
    - pixl97 4y ago
      Because I find it actually useful on doing things now.
      - idkwhoiam 4y ago
        What do you use it for? As a web developer I use Github's Copilot and enjoy its assistance the most in unit tests. I haven't found any use case for ChatGPT yet. I get better & quicker results searching what I need on Google. I'm much quicker searching by keywords as opposed to putting together a full sentence for ChatGPT.
        sebzim4500 4y ago
        Yeah currently Copilot is way more useful than ChatGPT. That may change with plugins, we'll have to say. Either way though, Copilot is certainly a product of the 'current AI wave' that is being compared to crypto scams above.
        sailfast 4y ago
        Can you use it without worrying about getting sued because it's using licensed software under the hood to generate your tests without telling you? Wasn't sure how far their license agreements / guarantees had come...
        KineticLensman 4y ago
        I recently had to generate lots of short text descriptions of numerous different items in a taxonomy. ChatGPT successfully generated 'reasonable first draft' text that saved me a lot of time basic wordsmithing. I made several edits to make additional points or to change emphasis but overall it got me to the 80% stage very quickly. At home, a carpenter working at my house said that he is using ChatGPT to overcome problems associated with his dyslexia (e.g. when writing descriptions of the services his company offers). I hadn't even considered that use case.
- yawnxyz 4y ago
  I pulled the plug and got a (free) prompt package on sales. Never done that in my life. It's like 300 prompts about various sales tools and terms I'd never heard of — even just getting the keywords is enough to set me off on a learning experience now, so love it or hate it, that was actually weirdly useful for me. (I had ZERO expectations when I clicked to download)
- pms 4y ago
  Definitely!
yla92 4y ago
I am curious to find out more about those "prompt packages". Where can I see the list of them?
eternalban 4y ago
> The seas will calm in a few years and then Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud analogs. We are entirely fortunate that the interests of big tech (edge AI) and democratizing AI (we the little people) align to a sufficient degree. Decentralizing AI is -far- more important than decentralizing communication, imo. The get rich quick path of ‘gold rush’ (it works, tbh) could work against this collective self interest if it ends up hyping centralized solutions. If you are on the sideline, the least you could do just cheer (hype :) the decentralized, democratized, and freely accessible candidates.

BonoboIO 4y ago

AI NFTs :D

mattbrewsbytes 4y ago

Replace AI in your text with crypto and its like history repeating itself. Instead of hearing about ICO's we will be hearing about GPT bots/plugins. Will the hype train and gold rush noise suffocate any burgeoning tech from finding the light of day (again)?

michaelbrave 4y ago
not only that but it gave me .com crash flashbacks too
Bud 4y ago
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