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Running an app store for consumers just seems wayyyy off course from their stated goal of building AGI. Running any kind of two-sided marketplace with paying cu
by habosa 3y ago
Running an app store for consumers just seems wayyyy off course from their stated goal of building AGI. Running any kind of two-sided marketplace with paying customers is quite a big undertaking, I just can't see how this is the best use of their resources and attention if they want to pursue their mission.
- jomohke 3y agoPresumably it generates revenue and gives them more data. Both can be useful for that goal.
- mistymountains 3y agoOr, just maybe, AGI is a mirage with the bulk of its current utility as a marketing tool for much more realistic, if ultimately mundane, applications. OpenAI, of course, knows this.
- sdwr 3y agoWhether it's real or illusory, I feel like they turned the bitrate down significantly since launch. I'm not getting as many smart electrons per question as I used to.
- rymiel 3y agoThis is measurably true. They claim they don't know why because "they haven't changed anything" but it is true at the very least
- persolb 3y agoI think at least some of this is expectation setting. I'd been saving my prompts from the beginning. In some cases I saved the results. On the API: My prompts are getting 'harder' and expecting more. My old prompts still work just fine still. On the website: Copy pasting the same old prompts still work... but the 'flavor' of the text that pops out definitely feels worse. I haven't seen any actual data showing a degredation.
- gfodor 3y agoWhy are so many HN commenters like this
- bsdpufferfish 3y agoskeptical about AGI?
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- gfodor 3y agono, presuming that other people working on things are both cynical and deceptive; it's projection, imo.
- alexsereno 3y agoPessimism is more infective than optimism. It’s also easier to be a naysayer, since most new ventures do failed you can point and say you were right regardless of merit.
- whoIsYou 3y agomaybe they need some sort of profit center to keep themselves funded to reach their goals
- NemoNobody 3y agoAGI will very likely develop atop the mundane applications that AI will be utilized for at the onset - if it ever develops. Regardless, mirage or not - as a mundane tool with realistic application this is still revolutionary
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoThere are two possibility that AGI is just an algorithm away and anyone could build it if they discover that. Or the second is that it would require large amount of talent and compute(or in other words money) that they don't have. Maximizing the deployable money for AGI seems like a good strategy to me if we assume AGI is not possible in near term. And moves like these increases money and funding by multiple times. And the resources needed to build a marketplace is tiny in comparison. Any good tech consulting firm can do it for less than few million dollars.
- eddiewithzato 3y agoSam Altman special
- gfodor 3y agoIt’s on mission to the degree you think it will help the public slowly and naturally become acclimated to agents.
- patcon 3y agoIf they want to learn how it's going to fuck over society (even if they want to avoid that) it makes some weird sort of sense to be the ones applying the breaking pressure. Assuming good faith, this is where they'd best learn how to avoid the pitfalls. I'm not sure assuming good faith is the right approach tho
- david_shi 3y agoIt’s a great source of first party training data in a variety of diverse scenarios