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Someone’s natural stupidity is someone’s else gold mine
by AHOHA 3y ago
Someone’s natural stupidity is someone’s else gold mine
- SoftTalker 3y agoThere's a sucker born every minute.
- morkalork 3y agoOpenAI out here selling pickaxes. Doesn't matter if half of people's ideas are trash and investors get fleeced, they get paid for api access all the same.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoThe success of ChatGPT (3.5 and 4 alike) is happening almost on as many dimensions as its latent space has. OpenAI is selling pickaxes. It's also selling fear in every color. Fear for your future. Fear for humanity's future. Fear for the future. It's selling hope - of new profits, new discoveries, new futures. It's selling prophesy and it's selling religion. It's also selling entertainment. To be honest, I bet that majority of use of ChatGPT still classifies more as fun than work. I pay for GPT-4 twice (ChatGPT+ and pay-as-you-go API access), and I use it daily, and 90% of my use is... exploratory in nature. I still consider it money well-spent. The problems may be real, and the outputs may be useful, but the choice of using GPT-4 is still dictated mostly by... playful curiosity. (Also, it's the first tech thing in almost a decade that broke through my layers of cynicism and got me excited again. There's lot of cool things to play with, lot of discoveries to be made, and the progress is real.) Whether or not LLMs are intelligent, OpenAI won. Financially, for now, but they'll have a spot in world history (for as long as history is a thing). The genuine technological jump they introduced... I can't remember any tech company in my life making this big a change in one step.