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Access to a rational, imperfect yet functional expert in lots of everyday subjects: personal finance, making decisions and plans, relationships, taboo questions
by miguel_rdp 5mo ago
Access to a rational, imperfect yet functional expert in lots of everyday subjects: personal finance, making decisions and plans, relationships, taboo questions, the first steps of a medical/law opinion, general problem solving and breakdown..
Even considering that it’s sometimes wrong or hallucinating, it’s doing an important job by beginning to eliminate gate keeping, be it centered on cost or access.
- amazingamazing 5mo agoIm unconvinced. How do you trade this for misinformation and scams that will be coming on unprecedented scale? In any case isn’t it the case that the value there is human expertise and search? At least with gpt 5 using it without search will almost certainly give you wrong information in a variety of topics so the value seems to be in search which is old tech
- wrxd 5mo ago100% I would be happier to have a small model that can run locally capable of searching the web than a stand-alone frontier model
- undeveloper 5mo agocan you not just do this with most local models nowadays? the qwen series is quite capable
- shepherdjerred 5mo agoAre you asking for a use case or the net benefit? Because it sure sounds like you're moving the goalpost. Considering that ChatGPT has 900 million users I suspect the average person finds value in the technology.