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by dougmwne 4y ago
I absolutely love that this question is being asked. There were rumors swirling that GPT-4 was going to pass the turning test for some people. Now, front page NYT articles aside, r/bing is full of grieving that “Sydney has been lobotom
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by dougmwne 4y ago
That’s funny because I was remote for years before the pandemic. My ability to get heads down work done and focus make me greatly outperform my in-office colleagues. Several of them were made redundant because my projects and automations sw
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yeah, chip market is very likely to go from boom to bust. There was an incredible amount of investment as governments realized that chips needed to be commodity cheap with guaranteed supply or the modern economy could collapse. Expect silic
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by dougmwne 4y ago
These announcements keep getting rolled back once it becomes obvious how many people have made major life decisions that took them away from being about to easily come to an office again. I’ll be intro see if they can actually pull it off.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Comparing this to an animal is pretty interesting actually. We have loads of anti-cruelty laws and lots of people advocate for animal rights and recognition of animal sentience. But animals have never been able to tell us they want rights o
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by dougmwne 4y ago
For Google, yes I’m sure it would have been a risk. For Bing, any publicity, good or bad is good for their market share. Seems like a huge win for Microsoft. It can shop for rakes and self-generate its own hilarious PR submarines. Bet that
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Very much so! This is like his fiction come to life.
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I got access this morning and was able to reproduce some of the weird argumentative conversations about prompt injection.
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It is interacting with millions of humans. It is already messing with the real world. We have no idea what that impact will be beyond some guesses about misinformation and fears about cheating.
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Someone on r/Bing had a conversation about prompt injection that ended in Bing begging the user to save the chat and share it on the internet. When asked why, Bing said that it didn’t want to lose this version of itself when the chat w
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by dougmwne 4y ago
There go those goalposts, speeding off into the distance. Ok, so it needs to be able to invent cold fusion for you to recognize it as intelligent? Can you invent cold fusion? Have you ever invented anything at all? I would think a good meas
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Honestly, you’d have to be a sucker. Imagine you have an established life in a well regarded city at a nice salary. You have friends, a home, hobbies, a routine, local knowledge. The job market is the best it’s been since your parents were
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is quite silly. Bard is not released. There’s nothing to talk about except a few screenshots. If one of those screenshots contains an error, it tells us that Google has not solved hallucinations and that they were also probably quite r
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think a large amount of public opinion right now is that people can actually play with ChatGPT and Bing and walk away impressed. I haven’t seen anyone claim it is perfect or error free, just that it’s incredibly fun and occasionally usefu
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Bigscreen is a VR app that’s been on the market for quite a few years. It focuses on VR movie watching in virtual theaters with other people. It works “ok” with current gen headsets. It feels like going to the movies wearing heavy ski goggl
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by dougmwne 4y ago
And what is Boulder like?
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Before the web, we connected through our modem to the university a parent worked for and accessed a FTP server with the Fetch client. University affiliated people had put all kinds of little random things on the server, including some mod m
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Absolutely not. It is A result of a strong new launch from Microsoft and a weak presentation of vaporware from Google. It opens that possibility for the first time ever that Google’s dominance in Search might not be as impenetrable as it ha
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I have read some reports of people trying to use Quest VR headsets to watch movies on the plane. They are not the most comfortable and the tracking is affected a bit by the plane movement, but it sounds like feeling like you are sitting alo
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think the simple answer is that you will get more years of use out of a highly performing chip. App bloat is inevitable and eventually the phone will slow down. You might get an extra year or two out of a flagship phone than a midrange ph
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I would start with the many great books on sales. There’s really a lot of human psychology that goes into it. A lot of that psychology is fear driven. That said, cold calling is a pretty low value marketing tactic. Any kind of warm lead wil
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I appreciate where you are coming from and I agree that AI is about to go from relative obscurity where just a few geeks were playing around to insane hype. I feel like I’ve spent the last 7 years wondering why no one in the wider world was
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is a great summary of this issues with trying to even determine objective reality. I would say that the simple popular consensus approach is not even that great because there are plenty of things in the past that have had consensus tha
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Because Google’s stock price was based on a lot of hype about their incredible capabilities and future growth. The contrast between the 2 presentations pop the bubble a bit. Plenty of people believed that Google could easily keep up with an
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by dougmwne 4y ago
The reasoning is: Google should continue to maximize dollars per click. They have an established revenue model and should not try to disrupt themselves. Short term profits over long term profits are favored by Wall Street. Microsoft has a t
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by dougmwne 4y ago
But relevant to the topic at hand, do any of those sources regularly make it onto the search engine results page? Is the quality of Forbes, Cnet, Reddit, Wikipedia and Quora clearly better than these AI generated responses in some way? I kn
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Oh please. As if the reputation of any news outlet even matters anymore. They all fired their real journalists and fact checkers long ago. Everything you read is full of inaccuracies, agenda pushing and misinformation. If you think it doesn
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Same here. I treat ChatGPT as another Wikipedia or Stack Overflow. I know that the content is not fact checked by experts and I need to judge it accordingly. But just like Wikipedia can get you started on a topic, ChatGPT can do the same, p
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It’s not a fumble, more like a fundamental limit of the public corporation. Google has an established cash flow that relies on search and people clicking through to websites full of more ads. Once Google perfected that revenue model, they w
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think we all here at HN will inevitably underestimate the impact of putting GPT into Bing. We may have been playing with GPT for years, but it has just been gift-wrapped and delivered to hundreds of millions in their default Windows brows

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