Submitted 8 months ago by catculation@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.thewrap.com/chatgpt-growth-2024
It writes my most boring emails so that I can save a scrap of mental energy for parenting properly after work. Even though my WPM ranges between 70-90 with >98% accuracy, I would rather save some of that mental energy to respond more thoughtfully as a dad.
Of note, I do not give one cold shit about GPT’s “growth”. It’s a linguistic power tool that needs to be carefully handled if you use it for any valuable work.
Of note, I do not give one cold shit about GPT’s “growth”
I mean, if you like the platform, it’s growth is tied to its continued existence and free usability. Still in the honeymoon phase as long as it’s growing.
Why is growth tied to continued existence?
They will start charging and or plaster it full of ads ive already sidestepped that with an api key and a foss frontent.
Just wanted to say that “GPT” is a general term and not just a name. OpenAI tried to trademark it but couldn’t because of that. It’s as if Nintendo was trying to trademark the word “Kart” because of “Mario Kart”.
hopefully it dies a quick but very painful death
How dare they provide a useful tool like this, those bastards.
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The majority of people don’t have a use for chat bots day-to-day, especially one that’s as censored and outdated as ChatGPT (its dataset is from over 2 years ago).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).
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.
It's not exactly training, but Google just recently previewed a LLM with a million-token context that can do effectively the same thing. One of the tests they did was to put a dictionary for a very obscure language (only 200 speakers worldwide) into the context, knowing that nothing about that language was in its original training data, and the LLM was able to translate it fluently.
OpenAI has already said they’re not making that publicly available for now
This just means that OpenAI is voluntarily ceding the field to more ambitious companies.
GPT tried to convince me that there was more time in 366 days than 1.78 years.
Large language models are notoriously poor at math, you should probably use a different tool for that sort of thing.
glorified autocorrect bad at math. who could have guessed
I hope it goes away
I somehow think its usefulness isn’t tied to consumer’s logging in and just using it. Eventually, this thing will be bundled into a personal assistant like Siri or Alexa and that will be how most people use it.
Additionally, businesses are going to try to use it in a lot of different ways… replacing phone and chat support, writing ad copy, articles, code, legal documents, etc, etc, etc. It still feels a bit early for company’s to have adopted it. I imagine it will just take a lot of work integrating it. ChatGPT also needs to be able to DO things, and wiring that all up is some work. For example, if I call a company for support with a product and ask for a refund, the AI needs to have access to the company’s systems to be able to do that task. It also has to do it reliably and correctly all the time.
Microsoft has a library that does exactly what you describe - Semantic Kernel. You can register plugins that do all sorts of things in the real world, and the AI API responds with instructions on how to use these plugins.
I’m very sceptical of LLMs, but this is the closest this technology came to actually being useful.
That’s what the 7 TRILLION dollars they are seeking are for.
Jesus Christ it’s not all about growth.
Line must go up
Obviously you’re not evolved enough to realize th AI is THE FUTURE of all things and everything is better with AI! A child in a poor environment was saved by AI! A king who was mean was dethroned with AI! Everyone was made happy by AI! Say it! SAY IT!!!
Who’s Al??
Allen Iverson.
Was this article written by an ai?
The image is AI. Look at the keys on that keyboard. What fucking language is that?
And for you AI fanbois who have to downvote this because nooooooo AI images future - pffft. Your boos mean nothing to me, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.
The free version sucks and the paid version increasingly refuses to do things for ‘safety’ and they have competitors finally catching up.
So where it goes is GPT-5 this year.
Controlling drones to go get putin dead or…hey! Is that Buick? Anyway yes, putin please 🙏.
Modva@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jesus Christ, can we leave things alone that aren’t infinitely growing
micka190@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Gentlemen, it’s come to our attention that every one who could pay to use our product is paying to use our product. Unfortunately, it also means we’re no longer growing infinitely like we promised the shareholders we would. How do we fix this?”
The infinite growth mindset is so fucking stupid. Like, you’re still making an insane amount of money, what’s the fucking problem?
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Because stock bros be lazy AF. They can’t even be bothered to buy and sell stock based off of who is and isn’t doing well, so they utilize investment firms who offer safe and risky bets like ETFs and Futures respectively. Ultimately, everyone really just wants to to buy one stock, have it make them money that exponentially makes even more money quarter after quarter forever, and then do whatever they’d actually do if money were no object (I.e. actually live life).
We don’t live in a world where desire/need scales evenly with this desire for exponential, eternal growth, so capitalists, who promise this impossible prospect to wall street, exploit human fears, desires, needs however they can (union busting, lobbying, etc.)
Carlin ultimately said it best in what has to be one of the greatest bits of all time, on The Big Club.
Modva@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yup. Shareholders are the problem, who bought shares at price X and want to sell those shares at X+Y.
And they will do anything to get it.