Ben’s Perspective Part 2: A Few Thoughts About Chatgpt With Ben Horowitz
by Ben Horowitz
added by sari · updated 6mo ago
Ben’s Perspective Part 2: A Few Thoughts About Chatgpt With Ben Horowitz
- While I personally wouldn’t go so far as to describe current LLMs as “a solution in search of a problem” like cryptocurrency has famously been described as, I do think the description rings true in an overall economic/business sense so far. Was there really a great crying need for new ways to cheat on academic essays? Probably not. Will chatting wi... See more
andrea added
this is a valuable perspective on how disruptive AI actually is
What ChatGPT can do is a marvel. We are at the dawn of a new technological era. But it is easy to see how it could turn dark — and quickly. A.I. systems like this make the production and manipulation of text (and code and images and eventually audio and video) functionally costless. They will be deployed to produce whatever makes us most
... See morefrom Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times by New York Times
sari added
Paul Graham: There are already a huge number of books written by (or for) people who are ambitious for fame but have nothing original to say. AI is going to multiply this number shockingly. ChatGPT is these people's dream.
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Related: AI will cause an increase in the number of PhDs in fields like education, where merely writing a dissertation of the refrom AI #32: Lie Detector by Zvi Mowshowitz
Nicolay Gerold and added
What is upsetting about so much of the commentary and hype around ChatGPT is that it ignores the fact of writing and reading as experiences . To some, as long as ChatGPT generates content that is plausible, passing a (very) surface-level muster, we should be impressed and allow it to substitute for the human-produced text.
from Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values by John Warner
sari added
- Another vision is that there's a hybrid model, where companies embrace the fact that human-generated content a) has less scarcity value in a world where things that look like the output of hours of work from talented people can be produced in seconds[4], but b) is valuable as a unique input into such content creation. That's the direction The Diff ... See more
from AI Turns UGC into a PVP Zone by Byrne Hobart
sari added
interesting.. the value of high quality human content in an AI era could end up being more or less than it's worth now. But now that this technology is in the world, and will be widely available, we must think about what high school English should look like going forward. I’ve been thinking about these things for years, so I have a head start on others, but let me be clear ChatGPT has not created a problem that wasn’t already present.
from ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving by John Warner
sari added
- From chatbot to agent-coworker
What could ambitious unhobbling over the coming years look like? The way I think about it, there are three key ingredients:
1. Solving the “onboarding problem”
GPT-4 has the raw smarts to do a decent chunk of many people’s jobs, but it’s sort of like a smart new hire that just showed up 5 minutes ago: it doesn’t have a... See morefrom I. From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs by SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead
Max Beauroyre added
Imagine being able to have a language conversation about anything with a computer. This is now possible and available to many people for the first time with ChatGPT. In this episode we take a look at the consequences and some interesting insights from Open AI’s CEO Sam Altman.
from It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond) by ColdFusion
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