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I still feel miles away from trusting AI with my most ad-friendly queries. Things like: where should I eat? Who is a good plumber, etc. Maybe someone can expla

I still feel miles away from trusting AI with my most ad-friendly queries. Things like: where should I eat? Who is a good plumber, etc. Maybe someone can explain to me how an AI would revolutionize that, it either requires I trust it’s opinions or it does something similar to google: give me a list with stars and reviews and let me make my own choice. Or maybe people are lazy and in two years our phones will be telling us: “the best movie for you to watch right now is Creed 4, press here to buy a ticket”

mynameisvlad 4y ago
I mean, just like any other advertiser, they can build/buy a profile of your likes and dislikes from your previous requests and an online data broker. With that information, they can then feed it through standard matchmaking algorithms (which is nothing new) to find the best X movies/restaurants/etc given your profile and any specific requests you give it. This seems perfectly reasonable, the only thing new here would be integrating existing search and recommendation behavior into the model, which doesn’t seem difficult given there’s a plug-in system which is meant to do pretty much that. You could probably build a proto-version of this by making a prompt that includes all the most relevant profile information about yourself and asking it to choose something for you based on those variables.
- ericmcer 4y ago
  That behavior is what people dislike about Google though. Filtering and biasing search returns is a huge area of mistrust for them. OpenAI's fix to this is an even more restrictive and opinionated version? That is a total nightmare once they decide to monetize it.
  - mynameisvlad 4y ago
    That behavior is what power users (read this audience) dislike about Google. They wouldn’t have gotten to be a powerhouse in search and personalized results if the strategy didn’t work for the mass market audience. The reason sponsored ads are first in the results is because people tend to click the first result without thinking about the consequences of that first result being sponsored. ChatGPT might not go down this path, but it’s almost certain someone will, and more than likely that Google will do exactly that within Bard. Do you think that people won’t appreciate an assistant that already knows everything about you and can conversationally recommend exactly what they were looking for? And do you think corporations won’t capitalize on the clear opportunity that’s there?

mynameisvlad 4y ago

I mean, just like any other advertiser, they can build/buy a profile of your likes and dislikes from your previous requests and an online data broker. With that information, they can then feed it through standard matchmaking algorithms (which is nothing new) to find the best X movies/restaurants/etc given your profile and any specific requests you give it. This seems perfectly reasonable, the only thing new here would be integrating existing search and recommendation behavior into the model, which doesn’t seem difficult given there’s a plug-in system which is meant to do pretty much that. You could probably build a proto-version of this by making a prompt that includes all the most relevant profile information about yourself and asking it to choose something for you based on those variables.

ericmcer 4y ago
That behavior is what people dislike about Google though. Filtering and biasing search returns is a huge area of mistrust for them. OpenAI's fix to this is an even more restrictive and opinionated version? That is a total nightmare once they decide to monetize it.
- mynameisvlad 4y ago
  That behavior is what power users (read this audience) dislike about Google. They wouldn’t have gotten to be a powerhouse in search and personalized results if the strategy didn’t work for the mass market audience. The reason sponsored ads are first in the results is because people tend to click the first result without thinking about the consequences of that first result being sponsored. ChatGPT might not go down this path, but it’s almost certain someone will, and more than likely that Google will do exactly that within Bard. Do you think that people won’t appreciate an assistant that already knows everything about you and can conversationally recommend exactly what they were looking for? And do you think corporations won’t capitalize on the clear opportunity that’s there?