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You're funny. Exceeding in importance the Internet itself? That's an incredible amount of hype. Would you rather have chatGPT dialed by SMS in a world without I

by c-cube 3y ago

You're funny. Exceeding in importance the Internet itself? That's an incredible amount of hype. Would you rather have chatGPT dialed by SMS in a world without Internet, or Internet without chatGPT? I know which one I'd choose

xnx 3y ago
It's a fair critique and an interesting thought experiment. Imagine a sci-fi alternative world where a smartphone-like portable device contained a compressed version all the world's knowledge (maybe a few petabytes?) and super-human intelligence (maybe 10x), but the highest level of communications was land-line telephones. It's not a slam-dunk that the world with high-speed Internet would be the superior one. Fortunately for us, we [almost] have both.
- adammarples 3y ago
  It's a little hitchhikers guide
  - xnx 3y ago
    I was considering using that analogy(!), but realized that our near AI future might be something that's closer to a combination of the Hitchhiker's Guide AND Marvin (50,000x smarter than a human).
- sshine 3y ago
  I can imagine a future in which people are not generally connected to the Internet, but rather to local GPU-powered bubbles that simulate it. Visiting the actual sites that the search engine summarizer references costs extra, but your subscription includes a wide array of websites ranked higher. Most people who are online visit the same few social media / streaming / news sites anyway. It seems like the high-quality LLMs that drive the hype train are not profitable, and the low-quality LLMs that you can run on consumer hardware and doesn't cost millions to train are not yet good enough to make money on.
  - xnx 3y ago
    If there's been one constant in technology, it's that compute gets cheaper. Imagine how the profitability calculation changes when Nvidia A100-level computation costs 1/10th what it does now.

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You're funny. Exceeding in importance the Internet itself? That's an incredible amount of hype. Would you rather have chatGPT dialed by SMS in a world without I

by c-cube 3y ago

xnx 3y ago
It's a fair critique and an interesting thought experiment. Imagine a sci-fi alternative world where a smartphone-like portable device contained a compressed version all the world's knowledge (maybe a few petabytes?) and super-human intelligence (maybe 10x), but the highest level of communications was land-line telephones. It's not a slam-dunk that the world with high-speed Internet would be the superior one. Fortunately for us, we [almost] have both.
- adammarples 3y ago
  It's a little hitchhikers guide
  - xnx 3y ago
    I was considering using that analogy(!), but realized that our near AI future might be something that's closer to a combination of the Hitchhiker's Guide AND Marvin (50,000x smarter than a human).
- sshine 3y ago
  I can imagine a future in which people are not generally connected to the Internet, but rather to local GPU-powered bubbles that simulate it. Visiting the actual sites that the search engine summarizer references costs extra, but your subscription includes a wide array of websites ranked higher. Most people who are online visit the same few social media / streaming / news sites anyway. It seems like the high-quality LLMs that drive the hype train are not profitable, and the low-quality LLMs that you can run on consumer hardware and doesn't cost millions to train are not yet good enough to make money on.
  - xnx 3y ago
    If there's been one constant in technology, it's that compute gets cheaper. Imagine how the profitability calculation changes when Nvidia A100-level computation costs 1/10th what it does now.