It is funny how NFTs and crypto fell off the radar so quickly. It happened so quickly that prices didn’t collapse because hardly anybody trades anymore.
I think people like Eliezer Yudkowsky are worked up about ChatGPT because it bullshits so much better than them.
which can do 13 different things and text generation is only one of them. Most of them involve setting up well defined problems (e.g. being smart) and building training sets (e.g. working hard) and aren’t the shortcut that people think ChatGPT is.
As I see it things that I was struggling with just a few years ago are downright easy, there is no doubt “the new AI” will find useful uses but somehow ChatGPT strikes at a vulnerable place in many people’s psychology.
If you have a real-world text-related task that is somewhat complex then you can use a custom prompt with OpenAI's API to achieve it within a few days. I can imagine someone hiring you for something like that and you charging them $20,000 for two weeks of completely wasted time due to whatever cognitive or philosophical hang up you have with using the more powerful pre-trained model.
I think people like Eliezer Yudkowsky are worked up about ChatGPT because it bullshits so much better than them.
That said, I look at this library
https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/quicktour
which can do 13 different things and text generation is only one of them. Most of them involve setting up well defined problems (e.g. being smart) and building training sets (e.g. working hard) and aren’t the shortcut that people think ChatGPT is.
As I see it things that I was struggling with just a few years ago are downright easy, there is no doubt “the new AI” will find useful uses but somehow ChatGPT strikes at a vulnerable place in many people’s psychology.