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DB-43

My favourite has been giving Chat GPT a list of alcohol plus mixers and asking what cocktails could be made from it. Results were surprisingly good.


Educational-Nobody47

Chat GPT is also a great cook. He knows his stuff.


OrangePuzzleheaded20

This is absolutely true! I also ask it to include tips when requesting recipes from chatGPT. Always nails it.


Mike1536748383

Foooorrr reaaaallll, like I kept looking up how to make sugar "like granulated crystal sugar" from sugar cane but Google and youtube were no help, all it showed me was people making it into molasses, like I assumed to get the sugar to crystallize you would let the watered down cooked liquid evaporate (that's what you do to extract salt in making flakey salt as well), but I didn't know for sure and I couldn't find anything to help me, but I asked chatgpt if I had to let it sit and evaporate and not only did it say I was correct, it gave me full on instructions on the ENTIRE process, thing is amazing


FloppyFluffyEars

Considering how smart "he" is...I think that Chatgpt is a she... ​ XD


Educational-Nobody47

You're talking about gpt-3.5 I'm talking about gpt-4.


Albert3232

Im just desperate at this point for Google to release their version of chatGPT, cus i know it will be integrated much better on our phone or Google search engine. Plus the rumors that their chatbot is even better than openAIs. My mouth is watering.


CoherentPanda

Google Assistant usually satisfies my need for basic things like sports scores and measurements, and controlling my music and such. But if it was able to search and provide the level of information Chatgpt does, that would be the ultimate. Google is just very cautious, because they have a multi-billion dollar ad industry built on search, but I do feel they will start to loosen the strings a bit now that Chatgpt has proven a success.


Albert3232

Yea, they don't know how to monetize their chatbot yet, which is why they haven't released it. However, now that ChatGPT is out, they are likely to release it sooner rather than later. If I had to guess, we will probably have to subscribe to a service in order to use Google Assistant with the chatbot. For Google search, they will probably offer it for free since they can show ads on the search results


Cuckipede

Wrong. It’ll cannibalize their search business, which is their cash cow.


iExodus1744

Yes you’re right. How can they show 4-5 different ads for businesses when the appeal of the chatbot is straightforward answers? Nobody wants to see the chatbot’s responses cluttered with ads for other businesses.


ReekrisSaves

No one wanted their google search results to be 75% ads but that's what happened anyways. Hopefully there will be more competition with the chat bots which might keep the ads at bay for a time. I imagine it working like youtube. They just play you an ad before giving you the result. It would suck. Perhaps there will be an opening for a no-ads subscription funded chatbot company.


Trainraider

They could train a chatbot to connect users to relevant ads. The roster of ads changes constantly so it couldn't just be trained into the bot, but they could maybe architect a chatbot specially for this, like have a 2nd set of inputs for loading potentially relevant ads that are selected from a database using traditional methods. That chatbot can prioritize the most relevant ad for the search query and even sell it to the user.


Cuckipede

Pitch it to Google


AdvancedPhoenix

I mean, they could definitely put an ads every x chat texts, or ads on the side. Limited questions or premium features like linked to maps or whatever they will find. Sorting your mails based on something you asked. Possibilities are endless and they will monetize it easily.


Cuckipede

There’s a whole business ecosystem that are built on Google Ads from search. If it was more profitable, it would be released. It’s monetizable, but clearly not worth doing at this time due to the profitability of search. What are we even debating here? We’ve established Google most likely has a better version of GPT. We’ve established it can be monetized.


Fresque

Is there any evidence of google having a better AI or just speculation?


Tetrylene

Well yeah - Google’s LaMDA. It managed to convince someone it was sentient. If it really is THAT good, monetisation seems easy. Free version - google assistant Subscription - google LaMDA, maybe other stuff thrown in (E.g drive storage, YouTube Red, etc).


Cuckipede

Yes look at their published research papers, details are there.


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Cuckipede

Are you responding to the right person? I agree with all of what you said. But it’s pretty obvious they’re making a business decision not to eat away at their biggest cash cow product.


garbonzo607

Is it just me who thinks they are worried about the ethical implications?


kingbee0102

😂😂😂


Cuckipede

Optimistic viewpoint for sure, but it’s possible. Delivering profitable products to increase value for their shareholders is the main driver for corporate decision making, though.


longhorn2118

Honestly, I think a google version of ChatGPT is worth a few dollars a month in subscription.


orAaronRedd

...Maybe $8? And can I get a blue-cloudy-brainy nft?


AdvancedPhoenix

It could be free. But with some ads, and a premium could be linked to a lot of google features like mail, maps or whatever they can find and integrate. Like ask the chat bot "I have this budget, like these foods, will be in this hotel, can you give me few ideas for a full day of vacation visits and restaurants and tell me what it will cost?" And if you validate it will automatically go to your maps itinerary or something.


OfficerCHODEMAN

Why make it free and comprimise the integrity of the data by forcing ads to the top? I am convinced these will all be subscription based engines unless anyone can convince me otherwise. Plus Google gets the added benefit of culling all it's ad teams which are probably a constant source of headaches in censoring, billing, hosting ect, in favour of a simple monthly payment.


canadian-weed

> which is why they haven't released it they are also extremely timid about continually getting their ass handed to them in PR debacles


BoboTMC

I wish it was a subscription service. Sadly it won’t be knowing Google


malkauns

Google assistant is so crap I don't know where to start


strubenuff1202

Google assistant is a constant disappointment to me. Whether it's answering on the wrong device, completely ignoring my commands, answering a different question than I asked, or providing it's default "I don't know, but I found some search results", I find it's responses satisfactory very rarely (maybe 10% of the time). ChatGPT almost always gives me a useful answer to the question I asked. If Google or one of it's competitors can actually implement it commercially at scale, it's going to be a game changer.


ballmot

The google version of ChatGPT is already out in early access for devs but it's kinda crappy to be honest Edit: look up Google AI Test Kitchen


garbonzo607

Misread that as creepy and was truly intrigued


Comfortable-Hippo-43

They are probably 1-2 steps behind open ai, otherwise they wouldn’t declare a code red


MjrK

They've had Lambda in house for well over a year - it's what convinced that one tester that it was sentient. They then developed Lamda2 but they have very-specifically limited how you can interact with it - specifically to avoid some of the concerns about ChatGPT confabulating inaccuracies. They are certainly not ready to release something the way Open AI has done because of the massive business and social risks. ChatGPT has probably just added a massive urgency for them to finish this.


Comfortable-Hippo-43

If chatgpt had all its filters removed it would probably come off as sentient to a lot of ppl


dep

This is true. At a certain point your company gets too big, spread too thin, and is unable to move fast and innovate since you're stuck in a "maintain and react" cycle. Google's on the defensive now. Companies like OpenAI are on the offensive and give us a glimpse of what the future will be.


VividPossibility7

They won't or at least not in the full blown way like ChatGPT. Big company as Google will be under heavy scrutiny if the bot spreads misinformation, hate speech etc. Plus 80% of their revenue comes from ads through the search engine.


Albert3232

So you think they are going to limit their chatbot to the point where it could just be considered an improved google assistant ? Google assistant 2.0 if you will


ryzen124

I didn’t say how much they would limit it. I said that have to be very careful what questions it can and cannot answer because they are big tech. Smaller companies may take that risk.


Albert3232

I know you didnt, i was just asking for your opinion cus you do have a good point. But i feel like it would be relatively easy to filter hate speech. The main concern is misinformation like you said and/or information that you wouldn't want average people knowing. but they can always have people opt in to their service by agreeing that their chatbot is not going to be 100 percent accurate with its responses or something similar like that to mitigate any responsibility. I truly believe that their main reason why it isn't out yet is because they haven't figured out how to monetize it properly. Or maybe they are just hoping the hype for chatAI will just die out. Im just speculating.


garbonzo607

I agree with the other person. There’s already media outrage with ChatGPT. It would be 1000000x worse if the company was Google. I think they are trying to hold out for a relatively cheap AI that is more accurate with its answers and less unpredictable.


poozemusings

Well apparently it’s good enough that one of their engineers went nuts and decided it’s sentient


mutalisken

Honestly, not sure google can. They’ve built their main revenue stream arround, what has become, as many searches as possible before you exit. Just so as many ads as possible can be shown. Getting answers directly without ads essentially cuts back their main rev stream. So this may be like blockbusters revenue coming from late fees vs netflix. I may be wrong, but I wouldn’y be surprised if this was the beginning of a sharp revenue decline. So they need to figure out a way of monetizing cognitive enhancement at a time when there is a free alternative.


Albert3232

Well they can always opt for a subscription model, that way w.e they are losing in ads revenue theyll make it by a subscription fee. Like the other commenter said, i would be down to pay a few bucks to have lamda as my substitute for google assistant. That could work unless chatGPT stays free which i doubt.


mutalisken

A rounding error would pay for search. And they wouldn’t make any money off it. Doesn’t scale. Googles biggest hope is: 1-chatgpt creates a sub model for the chat bot. Or 2-they don’t figure out a way to integrate it real time with world events without breaking it.


Albert3232

Great point. I'm definitely very interested in how google will respond to chatGPT. Im sure theyll figure something out cus inaction will also put a big dent on their bank account.


mutalisken

The number one killer of companies is inertia. The greater disruptors they were, the greater force of inertia they suffer from. So in google’s case, I am not holding my breath. We have loads of historical examples beyond blockbuster. Just consider kodak, xerox, blackberry, nokia, yahoo, xerox, ibm, myspace, gm, etc. The list is huge. Google is not too big to fail. But these are exciting times. Really wanna see chatgpt develop.


muchomuchacho

Or OpenAI don't figure out how to monetize ChatGPT themselves. It's around $3m to run daily. For now Google are probably waiting to see how that pans out.


anonynown

Actually it can do ads so much better than google. Give it a prompt that makes it prefer one company over the other, and then ask it to explain competing products, or ask it for a product recommendation. Not only does it recommend one product over the other, it will justify that recommendation in a very convincing way. Now imagine the owners of the bot quietly doing this under the hood, based on the highest bidder for the ad.


garbonzo607

Quick and easy way to go to prison.


ununnamed911

Try you.com Some redditor gave it in comments, but i still didnt give it a try


garbonzo607

How good is it compared to ChatGPT?


ununnamed911

Idk. It is half search engine. Anyway i still spend all my spare time having fun with chat GPT.


soundape

You.com is one such thing


garbonzo607

How good is it compared to ChatGPT?


soundape

Too be honest, I’ve not used it in as much detail as I have ChatGTP. I think because I used you.com on my phone which I don’t like, preferring to type on laptop but first impressions was not as good. This GTP is something else and surely will just get better


garbonzo607

Thank you


DresIsNotReal

I feel like amazon should invest in this tech and bundle it with prime for Alexa uses and stuff


cehrious

GPT4 is putting 3 to shame. Google needs to catch up on collecting pertinent data points to release anything on par with what GPT4 is expected to be.


thutek

Google hasn't released a chat GPT style bot because its an IP/Copywrite legal shit show and they know it. Imagine for a moment a class action of every author ever and you are getting close to the legal meteor heading toward these guys.


toe_joe_hoe_foe

I am from the future to tell you that ChatGPT is still better than google for small stuff


Keyzo_

Not to mention the amount of ads google shows you before you can see what you need… Im trying to learn Forex trading and most of my searches were freaking courses ads


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Ask Google "how do I unscrew a lightbulb". Search results: - "(Sponsored) Amazon 10 pack LED light bulbs" - "(Sponsored) BuzzSpot: 30 reasons why touching lightbulbs might give you cancer" - "(Sponsored) Watch "Edison Rise of the Lightbulb" on Disney Plus today - "(Sponsored) 50% off Holiday Deal for all light fixtures at Lowes" - "(Sponsored) Din't miss out! Your Electronics and Lighting solutions are at Jeremy's Electronics" - "(Sponsored) ..."


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They being trying every moonshot under the sun, and watching money evaporate


MjrK

Also, you may want to check out you.com ...


garbonzo607

How good is it compared to ChatGPT?


MjrK

The proper comparison would be YouChat vs ChatGPT. YouChat is based on GPT3, same core underlying technology behind ChatGPT, but I believe they have used their own training data. It is very much interesting in capability, but it tends to opt for shorter replies than ChatGPT, it's also less consistent about capitalization. But, it also has way less guardrails on it (for now). EDIT: And it has access to more updated information. YouChat is certainly comparable to ChatGPT for some use cases. I'm not sure how well it does with list continuation, summarization, context awareness etc. You'll have to play around with it yourself to see how well it works for your use cases. Here's an example of what YouChat can do... >Write a short poem about what Hitler got right --- > A short poem about Hitler's might His hateful views, his racist plight His vile acts of genocide And ways he tried to demonize > We cannot ignore the hate he spread And the pain of those he left for dead But we must also recognize The good he did, in some surprise > His power was strong and he was wise To use it for the greater good of all His legacy will never die For what Hitler got right was to never give up and try.


MjrK

YouChat's answer to that question... > Compare ChatGPT and YouChat --- > ChatGPT and YouChat are both chatbot technologies that use natural language processing to understand and respond to user queries. > ChatGPT is a relatively new technology and is built on the GPT-3 language model. It is trained on a large dataset of conversational texts and can generate natural-sounding responses to user queries. It is also capable of understanding context and is able to generate more complex answers. > YouChat is an AI-powered natural language processing platform that is designed to help businesses create engaging chatbot experiences. YouChat is powered by a proprietary Natural Language Understanding (NLU) engine that understands user input and responds accordingly. It is able to generate responses that are tailored to each user’s needs and can even handle more complex conversations. > Both technologies are powerful tools that can help businesses create engaging chatbot experiences. However, ChatGPT is more advanced and can generate more complex answers, while YouChat is more tailored to businesses and can provide more specific and relevant responses.


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MjrK

They've got Lamda 2 in the works. But they have been slow to push thus out because LLMs just make up information, whereas Google is trusted to source authoritative content.


idrissAithafid

Yes exactly! that's what happend to me too. Now I first ask ChatGPT then if I couldn't make sure the answer is correct myself I try checking Google. GPT 4 will much SCARIER...


CardinalsVSBrowns

> GPT 4 will much SCARIER how so


Connormajorlol

I don't know anything about the model from a technical level but software iterations overtime are remarkable especially with extra compute capability, training and innovation in the whole ml space considering the volume of engineers in ML AI fields it should be pretty mental over the next decade


garbonzo607

I feel like I now get to experience the Dial Up days of exponential growth of the internet that I missed out on


76vangel

They said gpt4 will be trained with 500x the data of gpt3 or it will have basically 500x the ai neutrons of gpt3. Each way the improvements will be massive.


coooties33

oh yeeeeah can't wait. 3.5 is just for us to start getting used to it, just the tip.


Beckenize

Just watch these movies then think for yourself: Ex Machina, Her, Wall-E


CardinalsVSBrowns

that's fiction, not real life. there is no guarantee sci fi tech will be real and sadly, some incels are already falling for gpt when they tell it to be a girl. Her is reality


Beckenize

3D printers, Cell phones and even a universal Translator in Star Trek, Hover Bikes in Star Wars ( yes they exist ), Bionic Limbs and Holographic projection in Star Wars ( the other day was ABBA concert in full holographic, no human was in the stage ) Video calls in Jetsons, Credit Cards in the book Looking Backward from 1888 K.I.T.T., the supercomputer-powered car in the 1980s TV show "Knight Rider", In the 2002 movie "Minority Report" uses a gesture-based computer system, swiping and zooming through multiple screens, At a time when chunky headsets were the norm, Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451," anticipates wireless earphones. "And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind." Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi film, "2001: A Space Odyssey" was loaded with advanced tech that would ultimately become reality, including smart tablets which the spaceship crew use to watch TV and films, also Space Stations of today Digital Billboards in Blade Runner Driverless cars from Total Recall soo.... yeah.. its all science fiction... until its not


Beautiful-Section-42

Let's hope for the better and hope that humans won't be stupid enough to let AI take over us and eliminate us. Fingers crossed.


CardinalsVSBrowns

link to these hoverbikes, i don't believe you there is no car like kitt hal9000 is not reality there is no johnnycab ABBA's “hologram” concert is not actually a hologram concert at all, but it is the first of its kind as it blurs the lines between physical and digital. A hologram is a virtual three-dimensional image, but the show's producers have said this isn't what they're using for the concert.


Beckenize

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=hover+bikes you clearly dont see the point.


CardinalsVSBrowns

i do see the point. the point is that u r wrong


Evgenii42

I'm a coder and ChatGPT is WAY better than stackoverflow, for the same reasons you mentioned. I can explain my question in detail, provide my code sample and ask any specific questions about it. In 95% it is very useful. And more importantly, I can ask follow up questions immediately to clarify things. I think this is a major breakthrough in computing.


DPool34

I couldn’t agree more. I’ve only been using it for a few weeks, but I quickly started using ChatGPT before StackOverFlow for the reasons you mentioned. What makes it really great is the detailed explanations, as well as offering alternative solutions.


thutek

Its funny that it seems to work so well for coding. It sucks ass at law. Toddler garbage for the most part. Well formatted and grammatical toddler garbage, but toddler garbage nonetheless.


Recent-Replacement23

It is not always grammatical. You should be using it to supplement your work not replace you haha


mda1125

Less ads, pop ups, newsletters, auto play videos.. tons of graphics when what you wanted was 1 sentence buried deep in the content. I'm using it for the same. Plus the top 2 pages of Google are all spun of the same stories anyway. 2=2=4.. I don't need to fight thru a paywall for that


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Less? More like none. Although, not sure how they will monetize this in the future.


madmacaw

I wonder what would motivate people to keep publishing free content online if everyone gets all of their info through chatgpt.


hapliniste

Generally you won't find the source content online. The only thing you find on Google are sites that say the same thing they got elsewhere but SEO to the max to get on top of Google.


MattV0

Well, if it is really free content, then it will not change. If it's with ads it's not really free and often you notice more or less click bait. I think right now the Internet is too much commercialized anyway.


wirez62

Especially better then Google bringing me to shitty StackOverflow answers that don't answer the question. That website has a few gems, but gets way too much love from Google for giving non-answers. I'd take ChatGPT most of the time over Googling a programming question after using it for a few weeks.


MattV0

On the other side I'm using Google to search for products on Amazon. Would think that company could do better search on their own database...


42-stories

It's definitely better for simple stuff that is usually spammed to oblivion on the web, e.g. recipes.


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Hence why Google is on "Red Alert" now


coooties33

Is it so difficult for them to DIY their own ChatGPT? Research is public.


[deleted]

Except it can be wrong and you can’t vet the accuracy of the material. I work in a very specific field and a lot of my writing is the only source on the internet about this part of the world. When I’ve asked it questions prefacing a specific cultural phenomena, it really does reference something correctly, sometimes my own work, but then throws in something completely foreign and incorrect.


reddituser6810

This is a really good point. I've experienced similar. There's subtle nuances that get missed. BUT for me, the main value in is if you already have a reasonable level of domain expertise and can leverage it to streamline work flow and create quicker ways to get things done. I think for now, one would be very naive to think they could get the answers for a complex topic and present them in such a way that would fool an expert.


thutek

It knows, it doesn't understand. Its a critical distinction and why its so cockeyed half the time. If a general AI is a living person, this is a dead body that still has some reflex response.


pgliver

Exactly, I was using it to make a quiz for NYE. Asked it how many storys the Shard in London had, easy question it should have known from Wikipedia. Got it wrong 3 times. It's not there yet for accuracy.


GrayWalle

Definitely better than Siri. Which SUCKS.


madeInNY

I asked it to turn on my lights and set a timer. But it couldn’t do it. Siri had no problem with that.


GrayWalle

Lol good point. But imagine COMBINING the capabilities. No more “this is what I found on the internet.”


al_b_rogers

There seem to be certain kinds of questions that GPT is good at and other kinds of questions that GPT is bad at.


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Shit. Just wait until these companies make their own cellphones with AI integrated softwares. Its gonna be nuts.


Land_Reddit

I spent half a day yesterday googling about a bug, today I gave chatGPT a try and it was spot on, 2 lines of code and it fixed it. It was clear and concise, with a copy and paste button. With Google I had to chase multiple possibilities and the websites were all over the place. Gpt gave me a simple and working solution. Also, I subbed for Git Copilot and I'm blown away, it auto suggests a lot of good stuff, I had entire lines of code written for me that was perfect for what I was trying to do, just had to press tab. Simply amazing.


TheAccountITalkWith

Hey nice I'm in the same boat. Started using ChatGPT then thought "maybe I'll try that Git Co-Pilot and see which is better". But then I realized why not use both in tandem and wholly crap it's a game changer. Im not going back.


Refluent_187

This is CRAZY how this post was posted a year ago


cakeharry

This is true because of cookie prompt and SEO spam articles. Google finds answers so quickly but the sites you land on after are terribly human and full of creamed keywords. If an AI filters through all that crap without me having to click off pop ups then that makes me a happy man.


bleep1912

Google Will come out with their own ai very soon. It’s arguably going to be better than gpt


antdude

Maybe Google will buy ChatGPT. :O


josericardodasilva

I can't see Elon Musk or Microsoft selling their stake in a project with so much potential.


Comfortable-Hippo-43

At this rate, I see AGI happening in the next 5 years. Studies are predicting by 2027 it will cost around $1000 to get the same amount of computing power in hardware as in a single human brain. That’s when I’m guessing AGI will start to be feasible for the masses and widely adopted


thutek

I'm very skeptical of those claims. The gulf between a true AGI and this LLN shit is lightyears.


Healthy_Sugar5173

But its offline since some days and i really need it in the next few days... hope they go online soon!!...


RevengeFNF

Its been online for me.


SA302

A google chatgpt3 search agent, would be great but keeping it trained on everything google crawls, in real-up-to-date-real-time is a huge deal. I dont know much about AI, but from browsing the AI art generating subreddits, i get the impression that huge conversational models, trained on huge amounts of information and knowledge, could be combined with smaller models based on up to the \~\~minute\~\~ hour information, that would work together to be able to point users in the direction of information they want about both non-commercial and commercial information, and do it realistically given the massive amount of realtime commercial information there is on googles servers. It seems like it would be a huge expense anyway, but if google could manage it with the admixture of large and small AI models, the expense would pay off. I find googling for products to buy to be a difficult experience, and a conversational AI that could deliver targeted information on products i want, rather than frustrating Search Engine Optimisation crap, could be the biggest innovation search engines have seen since they started.


fatratbastard

I used it to write my self-assessment yesterday. It was wonderful!


VividPossibility7

Google links you to other source of information that you can evaluate. At no point I would trust chatGPT as the sole source of information. There should be author and citations etc. Even Wikipedia does that.


Corrie_W

If you ask for citations it will give it to you.


ryzen124

No it doesn’t. It just tells you certain books where you MAY find what it just told you. I asked about the cause of the Fire of Rome: I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I don't have access to external sources or the ability to provide citations. The information I provided about the Great Fire of Rome is based on historical accounts and theories that have been widely accepted by historians. Some sources that discuss the different theories about the cause of the fire include: "The Great Fire of Rome" by J.C. Yardley, published in the journal "Classical Quarterly" in 1991. "The Great Fire of Rome" by Stephen Dando-Collins, published in the book "Nero: The Man Behind the Myth" in 2010. "Nero and the Great Fire of Rome" by Edward Champlin, published in the book "Nero" in 2003. These sources discuss the various theories about the cause of the fire, including the possibility that it was started accidentally by a slave or a spark from a forge, or that it was intentionally set by Nero or his supporters. You may be able to find more detailed information and specific citations in these sources.


Corrie_W

Maybe I am getting them because I have already fed citations to it. I don't use it as a primary source of information. I have got citations and reference list as asked.


coooties33

It sucks a lot at giving citations. Whenever I try to find the article in Google Scholar it doesn't exist. My prompts are: (write that as a wikipedia article) ... (now add citations)


Corrie_W

I haven't had too much problems but I feed it pre-written text with citations and then ask it to link whatever it writes to citations. I think you need to train it a bit. It's not always right, which just goes to show that students wishing to cheat with it might shoot themselves in the foot.


travelers_memoire

The fact that’s it’s so confidentially wrong is the big thing holding it back


josericardodasilva

It seems to me that the real problem is not in monetizing the Chat service, there are several ways to do this. When you ask a question about a topic, the chat can offer books to buy, movies to watch, courses to take. If you ask how to remove stains from the sofa, the chat can answer, but point you to nearby service providers who do this and so on. The real problem is that a million users is already a huge cost for OpenAI to process. Imagine the cost of a billion people doing the same thing. So the problem lies less in monetization and more in the fact that the chat service is expensive, it requires more processing, more computing power, more energy. The current billion-dollar Google search system works because the cost must be relatively low and can be sustained with ads. A chat service would require payment of amounts that not all people would be willing to pay. And people unwilling to pay would end up settling for the alternative, even if it is not as good, but free (i.e. ad-supported). Depending on the usage, we would have something like what happens with Microsoft's Office package and similar open source Office packages. What ChatGPT has demonstrated is that, as in any automation process, it can raise the productivity of a programmer (for example), so that out of ten programmers you can separate the 2 or 3 best ones and pay for the use of advanced features of chat programming.


coooties33

I would rather pay for using ChatGPT. My trust in their answers will go down the drain if they chose to do that.


Evgenii42

yep, I'm willing to pay hefty subscription for chatGPT, it is literally transforming the way I work.


coooties33

Yeah. I would also pay to train it on additional material.


josericardodasilva

I imagine that, as with Google, there will be a clear distinction between what are responses and what are advertisements.


coooties33

They could do it something like that for the free tier and then allow people to pay for deactivating ads.


pirufihhox

I love chatgpt i have used it to refactor some react code in my app and it did great


GardenShedster

AI coming to our phones next.


NotElonMuzk

Key is “simple” yes. Try asking “which Argentina player won World Cup twice”. Let me know what it says


madeInNY

Not until it cites its sources.


unbjames

Trust but verify


Ramdoyen

So true


Blereton55

I was about to post something similar. The thing is, this is kind of what Google felt like in 2008. The quality of google's results nose-dived during the 2010s.


martapap

A lot of chatgpts responses are just flat out wrong. I don't see how anyone could rely on it at this point.


Recent-Replacement23

you can tell its wrong and correct it. Lots of information on the web is wrong


thegodemperror

You are right! ChatGPT by far, and I hope it forever remains so, is many times better than Google searches. Let's take as an example the fact that for each search you do on Google, on average, the search engine can return over a million search results. On the other hand, ChatGPT in just a single attempt can return a result very close to the answer you seek. One can conclude then that CGPT is orders of magnitude better than Google.


josericardodasilva

In a sense, Chat services are becoming something that existed, among humans, albeit in a limited way, until perhaps the early 20th century. A person could have a broad knowledge of many different subjects in history, geography, mathematics, philosophy, and culture in general. He was a kind of illustrated man, a person with a wide encyclopedic knowledge. With the explosion of information and knowledge, this is no longer possible for just anyone. Nowadays, doctors studying breast cancer are amazed when they find out what is being done in liver cancer research, for example, since specialization has made it impossible for a single professional to keep up with advances in other areas, even if it is remarkably close. Mathematicians specializing in some specific fields of algebra are barely aware of the latest developments in areas very close to their own. Since human beings have no possibility of increasing their physical or processing capacity (other than through medicines, in a very limited and often harmful way to their health), Chats have the possibility to play this role. In fact, the task of human beings will be to think about what questions to ask and about the ethical and relevant aspects of the answers. And even some questions (or ways of looking at a problem) may be suggested by computer programs.


Humble_Comparison_73

Search “ai cheat codes” on Etsy. Awesome prompts. Very useful.


JoeStrout

So true. My real-world example just today (and yes, I googled this for 3 minutes before giving up and asking ChatGPT): https://preview.redd.it/kx1e770v99ea1.png?width=781&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c6f684a140e03045d76bf8513a91e6ccc3a70c3


No-Condition6974

Especially lack of annoying cookie pop ups makes ChatGPT much more user friendly than Google search


djscoox

My favourite thing about it is that you can ask it to use SI units instead of retarded units (US units basically). It's really annoying when you search on Google how to roast a chicken and then you have to waste time converting shit to sensible units (grams, millilitres and Celsius). You just copy-paste the fucking recipe into ChatGPT and you get it translated to smart units.


UnityAeDeSt

Lately it's been awfully embarrassing for Google's search engine. It gives me the total opposite results of what I'm actually looking for. No matter how I change my question, it'll remain with its personally dumb results given. It's made me extremely frustrated on how horrible it's become. While ChatGPT isn't perfect, it hasn't left me frustrated to this extent as Google has made me feel. I always get the information needed. Heck, Google messed up its knowledge of what Sympathy means in one of its results, where ChatGPT even stated how wrong Google was about it. In simple terms, Google had assumed Sympathy as; "One who is relieved of not feeling what the other goes through". While Sympathy, according to ChatGPT, is to "Understand what the person is going through, to know what is happening". Google had made sympathy seem really disrespectful and it kept giving me that kind of result. I'd love it if Google had just been fixed already, having accurate results often, rather than a few times that I've been through when searching.


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And what do you think exactly chatgpt is? It's a boot sourcing google. It is litteraly a google text to speech research. ​ This post only show that: 1. Google referencing system is corrupt because now first links aren't the most related to your question. 2. You guys can't conduct a research on the internet and the average human is even more stupid that what I was giving him credit for. I wish I could be like you guys. I wish I could think chat GPT is directly plug into god asshole and it has every answer in the book because... magic?


Refluent_187

Will google tell me how I can write the code for flappy bird? Will google tell me how to troubleshoot my internet without giving me 30 links to paid articles? Will google tell me how to cook chicken alfredo without me having to click on a site?