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This is not as concerning as it might seem. First, massive hype drove tons of users to try this flashy new thing. The talk of the town. But the vast majority o
by nickelcitymario 3y ago
This is not as concerning as it might seem.
First, massive hype drove tons of users to try this flashy new thing. The talk of the town. But the vast majority of them were not genuinely looking to integrate a new tool into their toolbox. They just wanted to know what all the fuss was about.
We see the same thing with Meta's Threads app. Massive hype created a huge spike at first, but the majority of those users (myself included in this case) had no real intention of making Threads a daily part of their life. They were just curious to see what the big deal was.
I'm willing to bet (but obviously don't have the data) that the number of users who use it multiple times per week (if not multiple times per day) is climbing, and climbing fast.
Second, I'm less interested in knowing ChatGPT's adoption rate than I am in generative AI's adoption rate overall. ChatGPT was the introduction for most people, but for those of us who chose to make it a core part of our toolbox we quickly discovered a wide array of other incredible generative AI apps.
Finally, I think anyone who is actively using generative AI for their work is never going to go back. It's too darn useful. It may take a while for the general public to wrap their head around how to make this a part of their lives, but for those of us who do, the benefits are profound. We see the reality of it and don't need to see trend numbers to inherently grok what's happening on the ground.
- imranq 3y agoCourses that can help people work with genAI are sorely needed. At the same time, hardware/software integration with these technologies is really lacking. There hasn't been an iPhone moment for generative AI yet
- gremlinsinc 3y agoChatGPT was the only ball in the game of soccer, now we're playing dodge ball, and there's multiple balls. Personally, I use generative AI daily but very rarely chatGPT directly. For modern info/searches/updated knowledge I'll use phind sometimes bing as an alternative. I use claude for writing - its way more creative/expressive I've almost written a full novel using this and it actually doesn't suck like most AI generated thigns, albeit - I'm breaking things down into pages, and being very specific on minor details/etc... it's just helping craft the visual imagery like descriptive writing etc, and I'll add my own flair on some parts that I'm more passionate about. I use amazon codewhisperer for coding, and some other vscode extensions that aren't openai related that do a pretty decent job. I think the questions should be -- has generative ai using language models increased or decreased? Like you mentioned meta's threads, this would be akin to - asking the question - has social media posts across threads, and twitter averaged less than before threads, about the same, or more?
- thatcherthorn 3y agoCurious, did you try GitHub copilot before switching to Amazon? If you have, what are the differences?
- Vanit 3y agoThanks for the heads up on Claude; I attempted something similar with ChatGPT in the early days but was limited to one paragraph at the time, and it kept injecting a lot of repetitive noise like the character constantly looking forward to the challenge ahead.
- doublerabbit 3y agoIt's replaced StackOverflow for me. Not having to deal with the attitudes of: "Why are you doing it this way" thrown at you while standing in front of an online audience has uplifted my worry on programming. With GPT, having a non-judgmental "you could do it that way, but what about this way?" is really pleasant. Especially for someone who's not a dev/programmer.
- notatoad 3y agothis is pretty much how i feel too. it's very weird to think that i've chosen to replace actual humans with a bot because the bot is nicer.
- michaelbuckbee 3y agoIt's replaced SO on both the low and high end of the complexity curve for me. "Low" -> GPT presents much more succinct answers with less to wade through for things like "XYZ Error". "High" -> I'm able to "prep" GPT by asking about certain topics and how to accomplish them and then have some back and forth to discern a plausible solution in a way that's much more contextual. In both cases, the other big win is that I don't have abstract out my questions to some generic but representative case, I can just provide exactly the code or scenario I'm working with and get answers back. Huge productivity gains.
- lottin 3y agoI don't have any trouble at all wrapping my head around the idea of a chatbot. I just don't have any use for it. And this may also be true for a large part of the general public.
- sshine 3y agoI use both GPT-based search (<5% of the time), which allows me to ask lazy questions, and summarisers. It saves me some amount of scrolling through search engine results. I would be very interested in an integration with Wolfram Alpha and an LLM; I heard Stephen Wolfram talk of this on Lex Fridman’s podcast. Essentially, I still open Python as my calculator, and my search engine for currency conversion; quick access to data sets and ease of composition is not in my toolbelt yet.
- JimDabell 3y ago> I would be very interested in an integration with Wolfram Alpha and an LLM GPT-4 already has a Wolfram Alpha plugin.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoMost web sites would kill to have a >10% retention rate. It sounds like both ChatGPT and Threads are well above that number.