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As an example: Dropbox can answer questions from the documents you've shared with them. They stand a good chance as anyone else to build a "personal chatgpt" /

As an example: Dropbox can answer questions from the documents you've shared with them. They stand a good chance as anyone else to build a "personal chatgpt" / "enterprise chatgpt". Dropbox is also big on photos, I believe, the latest advancements give them a shot at taking on Google Photos.

bentt 4y ago
I actually love this angle. Personally trained models based on our own data. They have the storage infra. They also have a means of distributed compute since they are installed on so many PCs. If they werent an annoying and aimless product I would be excited!
- dspillett 4y ago
  > Personally trained models based on our own data. This leads back to one of the AI promises if the earlier Internet, before WWW when Usenet, Gopher, and a number of other ideas, were where we were heading, and for a time after WWW's popularity before search engines hit certain quality/coverage levels: an intelligent search agent trained on information about you that would go off and scour the various data resources for you and return an optimal set of results after a while, perhaps even idly looking around and finding things you might search for but hadn't thought to ask it for yet.
  - emdashcomma 4y ago
    This reminds me of the first 25 seconds of this clip from The Matrix: https://youtu.be/Smwrw4sNCxE https://youtu.be/Smwrw4sNCxE
thesimon 4y ago
But how can you be certain that the answer is actually correct instead of just sounding correct? ChatGPT can come up with completely made-up answers that just seem right.
- williamdclt 4y ago
  and yet it keeps being a useful tool.
- wruza 4y ago
  Most companies work that way already, even small ones. Doesn’t end the world (doesn’t make it a perfect place to live in either).
- nicenewtemp84 4y ago
  That's basically as good as the average coworker in most companies, and more useful still than the lower end of coworkers I've had. I describe AI as a new intern or assistant. Pretty useful, but don't bet your company on their answer.
- passion__desire 4y ago
  By citing references? which were used to generate the answer.

bentt 4y ago

I actually love this angle. Personally trained models based on our own data. They have the storage infra. They also have a means of distributed compute since they are installed on so many PCs. If they werent an annoying and aimless product I would be excited!

dspillett 4y ago
> Personally trained models based on our own data. This leads back to one of the AI promises if the earlier Internet, before WWW when Usenet, Gopher, and a number of other ideas, were where we were heading, and for a time after WWW's popularity before search engines hit certain quality/coverage levels: an intelligent search agent trained on information about you that would go off and scour the various data resources for you and return an optimal set of results after a while, perhaps even idly looking around and finding things you might search for but hadn't thought to ask it for yet.
- emdashcomma 4y ago
  This reminds me of the first 25 seconds of this clip from The Matrix: https://youtu.be/Smwrw4sNCxE https://youtu.be/Smwrw4sNCxE

thesimon 4y ago

But how can you be certain that the answer is actually correct instead of just sounding correct? ChatGPT can come up with completely made-up answers that just seem right.

williamdclt 4y ago
and yet it keeps being a useful tool.
wruza 4y ago
Most companies work that way already, even small ones. Doesn’t end the world (doesn’t make it a perfect place to live in either).
nicenewtemp84 4y ago
That's basically as good as the average coworker in most companies, and more useful still than the lower end of coworkers I've had. I describe AI as a new intern or assistant. Pretty useful, but don't bet your company on their answer.
passion__desire 4y ago
By citing references? which were used to generate the answer.