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Open AI is the 21'th most visited site in Japan: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/ https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/ 47th in the US:

Open AI is the 21'th most visited site in Japan: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/ https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/japan/ 47th in the US: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/ https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/ I kind of didn't think that ChatGPT was getting traction outside of tech circles but this 100% changed my mind.

tkgally 3y ago
I live in Japan and follow the news in Japanese, and I’ve been surprised at how quickly awareness of ChatGPT has spread in the government and the mainstream media here. The prime minister met Sam Altman last month [1] and has mentioned generative AI in official statements [2, in Japanese]. Every day I see articles in the Japanese press about it. This morning’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun—both digital and paper editions—has a detailed guide to prompt engineering [3, in Japanese, firewalled]. I am on the faculty of a university in Tokyo, and next week I’m going to be giving a couple of online workshops for the staff members in my department. I plan to show them how they can use GPT-4 in their work: translating and summarizing documents, writing and polishing e-mails, composing Excel functions, brainstorming, etc. Interest seems high, but usage is still limited. I sent out a survey yesterday to people planning to attend the workshops. One of the questions was “How much have you used ChatGPT, Google Bard, or other LLMs?” Of the 26 who have replied so far, only two replied “frequently.” Half have used them “only a little,” and 11 have not used them yet at all. [1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/OpenAI-CEO-vows-to-work-with-Japan-on-user-protections https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/OpenAI-CEO-vows-... [2] https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/101_kishida/actions/202304/25shihon.html https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/101_kishida/actions/202304/25shi... [3] https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC1177N0R10C23A4000000/ https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC1177N0R10C23A4000000/
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dorkwood 3y ago
In my experience it's getting traction everywhere. In the last few months I've spoken to a lawyer, a builder, a marketer, a graphic designer, and several taxi drivers, all who were using it themselves. The lawyer even said they used it at work. I asked them if their firm had any rules around what they could put into it, and they said no.
- carlmr 3y ago
  >The lawyer even said they used it at work. I asked them if their firm had any rules around what they could put into it, and they said no. That sounds like your lawyer friend might get sued soon!
  - lucubratory 3y ago
    They'll have a lot of other lawyers for company, then. They're all doing it right now.
- maegul 3y ago
  Yep ditto. I don’t believe the hype was all that real until I heard random people having conversations about it while out and about. And then south South Park made an episode about. Pretty clearly gone mainstream.
- Aromasin 3y ago
  My partner and all of the other teachers in their school are writing their school reports in ChatGPT now. They put in a few points to describe how the student is performing, and the model puts it into a cohesive format. It's made an activity that normally takes an evening per student (maybe 20+ on a good run) into one that can be done in 3 or 4. The quality of the reports is up too. Each child is getting a completely individual report, not one copy/pasted from 4 or 5 others. The teachers can spend more time finding the right words to describe how the child is doing, and less on whether the sentence is grammatically correct.
asdff 3y ago
I got a haircut last month and my barber already used it and wasn't too impressed
altcognito 3y ago
On the third day after chatGPT 3.5 was released literally an entire classroom of my students was talking about how they were using it. It is a game changer.

tkgally 3y ago

I live in Japan and follow the news in Japanese, and I’ve been surprised at how quickly awareness of ChatGPT has spread in the government and the mainstream media here. The prime minister met Sam Altman last month [1] and has mentioned generative AI in official statements [2, in Japanese]. Every day I see articles in the Japanese press about it. This morning’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun—both digital and paper editions—has a detailed guide to prompt engineering [3, in Japanese, firewalled]. I am on the faculty of a university in Tokyo, and next week I’m going to be giving a couple of online workshops for the staff members in my department. I plan to show them how they can use GPT-4 in their work: translating and summarizing documents, writing and polishing e-mails, composing Excel functions, brainstorming, etc. Interest seems high, but usage is still limited. I sent out a survey yesterday to people planning to attend the workshops. One of the questions was “How much have you used ChatGPT, Google Bard, or other LLMs?” Of the 26 who have replied so far, only two replied “frequently.” Half have used them “only a little,” and 11 have not used them yet at all. [1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/OpenAI-CEO-vows-to-work-with-Japan-on-user-protections https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/OpenAI-CEO-vows-... [2] https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/101_kishida/actions/202304/25shihon.html https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/101_kishida/actions/202304/25shi... [3] https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC1177N0R10C23A4000000/ https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC1177N0R10C23A4000000/

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dorkwood 3y ago

In my experience it's getting traction everywhere. In the last few months I've spoken to a lawyer, a builder, a marketer, a graphic designer, and several taxi drivers, all who were using it themselves. The lawyer even said they used it at work. I asked them if their firm had any rules around what they could put into it, and they said no.

carlmr 3y ago
>The lawyer even said they used it at work. I asked them if their firm had any rules around what they could put into it, and they said no. That sounds like your lawyer friend might get sued soon!
- lucubratory 3y ago
  They'll have a lot of other lawyers for company, then. They're all doing it right now.
maegul 3y ago
Yep ditto. I don’t believe the hype was all that real until I heard random people having conversations about it while out and about. And then south South Park made an episode about. Pretty clearly gone mainstream.
Aromasin 3y ago
My partner and all of the other teachers in their school are writing their school reports in ChatGPT now. They put in a few points to describe how the student is performing, and the model puts it into a cohesive format. It's made an activity that normally takes an evening per student (maybe 20+ on a good run) into one that can be done in 3 or 4. The quality of the reports is up too. Each child is getting a completely individual report, not one copy/pasted from 4 or 5 others. The teachers can spend more time finding the right words to describe how the child is doing, and less on whether the sentence is grammatically correct.

asdff 3y ago

I got a haircut last month and my barber already used it and wasn't too impressed

altcognito 3y ago

On the third day after chatGPT 3.5 was released literally an entire classroom of my students was talking about how they were using it. It is a game changer.