A lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI

https://twitter.com/maiab/status/1723784023619895489

by bilsbie • 3 years ago

57 31 3 years ago

Oh god. I’m already imagining the hell that’s ChatGPT with “sponsored ad break” responses.

tjr2• 3 years ago

I imagine it will go through a period of reasonably subtle product placement text before switching over to outright ads mid-sentence.

civilitty• 3 years ago

As a large language model, I can't he-

Hi, it’s Clippy with ShamWow! You’ll be saying, “Wow,” every time you use this towel. It’s like a shammy. It’s like a towel. It’s like a sponge. A regular towel doesn’t work wet. This works wet or dry.

This is for the house, the car, the boat, the RV. ShamWow! holds 12 times its weight in liquid. Look at this. It just does the work.

Why would you want to work twice as hard? It doesn’t drip. It doesn’t make a mess. Wring it out. You wash it in the washing machine.

Made in Germany—you know the Germans always make good stuff!

-lp with that"

YetAnotherNick• 3 years ago

Yes, I don't have the exact design in mind, but I think it is very likely that LLM could bring a new era of advertisement. AI who knows the product that is being advertized and the user and their current state of mind really well to have order of magnitudes of probability of action that the advertiser want. AI could also maintain better ad quality and provide better experience to user, as now people are finally getting fully desensitized to all the scammy ads with full screen banner.

This could really be the next big thing from AI which I believe is solvable using current generation of LLM. And this will be the next trillion dollar company.

esperent• 3 years ago

Aren't they legally required to clearly differentiate advertising text from other text? At least in the EU.

sa-code• 3 years ago

Yeah it's only nice because they haven't enshittified yet. I would give it 2 years

DrSiemer• 3 years ago

Why on earth would you use an ad ridden AI? Just use your own AI and have it filter out all the nonsense.

Smart ad blockers will soon be able to find and eliminate stuff like sponsored content automatically.

Glasses that automatically blank or replace billboards in real life might actually convince me AR is more than just a gimmick.

rchaud2• 3 years ago

Why imagine? Google's founders themselves wrote in their thesis that an ad business would compromise the quality of search results over time.

ThrowawayTestr2• 3 years ago

No I'm pretty sure the magic is having a chat bot that actually works.

djmoore711• 3 years ago

I agree 100%! This tweet sounds like someone with a narrative trying to leverage a hot topic for their popularity.

antonvs3• 3 years ago

Not to mention that if they think they’re getting “high-quality internet content”, it means they haven’t yet understood the limitations involved. Not only “hallucinations”, but also parroting of false claims. Which I suppose is “internet content” but when stripped of sources, it becomes more difficult to assess its credibility.

aCoreyJ• 3 years ago

"it feels like we definitely had the technology to do this a LONG time ago!*

What...

Alifatisk• 3 years ago

Yeah, sounds like BS to me.

jug• 3 years ago

Yeah, we literally didn't have the _technology_ of all things. We did have research and machine learning is not a new field. We had a good hunch on where to go next for some time. But AI is infamously hardware constrained and we have only recently got the technology to do GPT-3+ class AI at all.

SantalBlush2• 3 years ago

This post could've been a tweet.

There's not much content here.

derwiki• 3 years ago

I’m confused, isn’t this post a tweet?

gumby• 3 years ago

I thought the GP comment was intended as a joke about generative transformers.

torginus• 3 years ago

I remember the huge controversy a couple of years back when Google started showing these summaries in the search results - the covenant between Google and people who produced the content used to be that people wrote content and Google directed eyeballs to said content, in exchange it got to show ads on top of it, but Google took the content and stopped the traffic from getting there, people were understandably upset.

ChatGPT is more of this.

rchaud2• 3 years ago

Google's so-called "zero-click searches" makes garbage websites like celebritynetworth.com and Forbes.com, the ones that write content for search engines, rush straight to the top of 'organic' results.

tuxracer• 3 years ago

the anti-AI hype is at an all time high. This tweet is barely a thought experiment, provides zero data, but makes it to the frontpage

the absolute fixation some people have over the use of the term AI - isn't the measurable output of this technology more productive to discuss?

tamarlikesdata• 3 years ago

It'll get there

hbossy• 3 years ago

I wonder how hard would it be to just write off the Internet and go full offline. Setup a local LLAMa instance, download Wikipedia, torrent every movie and tv show from the last 40 years, clone all the github projects. It might sound crazy, but I remember people archiving entire discographies of their favorite artists on a single DVD. How much can you fit on single, modern HDD?

ThrowawayTestr2• 3 years ago

Current hard drives are in the 12-20 TB range. That's a lot of movies.

A lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI

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