This was inevitable, not sure why it’s newsworthy. ChatGPT blew up because it brought LLM tech to the masses in an easily accessible way and was novel at the mainstream level.
The majority of people don’t have a use for chat bots day-to-day, especially one that’s as censored and outdated as ChatGPT (its dataset is from over 2 years ago). Casual users would want it for simple stuff like quickly summarizing current events or even as a Google search-like repository of info. Can’t use it for that when even seemingly innocuous queries/prompts are met with ChatGPT scolding you for being offensive, or that its dataset is old and not current.
I think LLMs in the form of ChatGPT will truly become ubiquitous when they can train in real time on up-to-date data. And since that’s very unlikely to happen in the near future, I think OpenAI has quite a bit of progress left to make before their next breakout moment comes again. Although, Sora did wow the mainstream (anyone in the AI scene has been well aware of AI generated video for awhile now), but OpenAI has already said they’re not making that publicly available for now (which is a good thing for obvious reasons unless strict safety measures are implemented).
paddirn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m genuinely surprised anytime I get anything remotely useful from any of the AI chatbots out there. About half the responses are beyond basic-level shit that I could’ve written on my own or just found by Googling it, or it’ll give just plain wrong information. It’s almost useless with important, fact-based information if you can’t trust any of its responses, so the only thing it’s good for is brainstorming creative ideas or porn, and the majority of them out there won’t touch anything even mildly titillating, so you’re just left with this overly sensitive chatbot that takes about as much work to craft a good prompt as it would to just write the answer out yourself.
I tried playing a game of 20 Questions with one of them (my word was “donkey”, it was way off and even cheated a bit) and it kind of scolded me at the end because I told it the thing wasn’t bigger than a house, as if I was the one who got that fact wrong.