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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This article will be aged junk in 3,2 …

I get that the article is about user count but that really is about perceived usefulnesses and also more decent ai competitors to chatgpt pro.

They literally only just released text to video which they say will be used as a foundation for agi reasoning.

They have also hinted that training on gpt5 has begun and that it will be faster to train then gpt4

Just before that google came out with a new model that can keep track off 10 mil tokens, beats gemini pro and is also much faster to train. Gemini pro is barely a month old

This will not be a quite year for ai, if theres any flatline its going go be vertical, googles progress nearly is. Most ai progress benefits the entire industry over time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Given they quietly walked back their stance on military projects during the altman drama my guess would be MI related contracts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What does your mother-in-law have to do with AI?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Mi = Military industrial in this context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I think they mean we should put it out its misery?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ it's not all about growth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Line must go up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It pisses me off when I ask it to do something specific and it comes back with some verbose response about all the things I should think about or look into if I were to want to do that thing. Like, bitch, I’m not asking for advice, do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The patronizing aspect is really ridiculous.

Especially when it gets the situation wrong as often as it does.

OpenAI have the best tech, but are making some really bad choices when it comes to productizing that tech.

Either the tech outpaces their bad decision making, or they are going to get eclipsed by companies catching up to their tech but with better product vision.

As amazing as I find their technology, I wouldn't personally invest in the company.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I somehow think its usefulness isn’t tied to consumers 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 companies 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.

It’s still really early days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

That's what the 7 TRILLION dollars they are seeking are for.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

This was always going to be limited. Eventually, it doesn't matter how much data you dump in, it won't be unique enough to train anything new out of the model.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

hopefully it shrinks :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Allen Iverson.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I hope it goes away

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