ChatGPT The Mascot of Conversational A.I.

GPT-3.5 to the rescue of a boring internet of Twitter shows and SBF fraud.

Hey Guys,

Even as Amazon has announced massive cuts to Alexa and its hardware department, as one chat-bot fades, another rises from the ashes of our sci-fi hopes and dreams.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which launched as a free research preview for anyone to try this week, is setting the Twitter lanes of A.I. hype on a crazy path of late. I know better than to buy the hype, but it is amusing.

AI chatbot ChatGPT has been trained to provide conversational answers to users’ queries. Users (like Beta trainers) have realized it can do a lot more including interacting with code, writing poetry and other fanciful things.

Many writers and analysts are saying that ChatGPT at the intersection of x, y, or z is going to be impressive.

Are We Witnessing the Brain-Computer-Interface of No Code Disrupted by NLP?

What if the “brain-computer-interface (BCI)” is not a device but the “prompt experience” of no-code platforms?

• If we are to believe the writers, the bot can help you write code, compose essays, dream up stories, and decorate your living room.

• If we are to believe the Tweets, OpenAI’s interface and product in ChatGPT is surprisingly immersive and stretches capabilities and with surprising use cases.

GPT-3 has been available since 2020, so why does it feel like the hype is only getting started now? There’s a certain sense of marketing and PR at work with GPT-3.5 even as anticipation builds for GPT-4 and what it will be.

An A.I. Assistant Text-to-Infinity

In case you haven’t seen the buzz around ChatGPT yet, it’s basically an implementation of their new GPT-3.5 natural language generation technology, but implemented in such a way that you just chat with it in a web browser.

Our dear A.I. colleague, ChatGPT, how was your day?

In a nutshell, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can “answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”

ChatGPT is adapted from OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model but trained to provide more conversational answers.

The most immediate ChatGPT application is assisting human creativity, according to some, playing with code according to others and just really good at rhyming poetry, from what we have seen.

The idea that this will transform search is also being hyped, here by TechCrunch:

The potential for something like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to eventually supplant a search engine like Google isn’t a new idea, but this delivery of OpenAI’s underlying technology is the closest approximation yet to how that would actually work in a fully fleshed out system, and it should have Google scared.

I guess once upon a time we also thought Alex, Siri or Google voice would supplant Google, haha. Google has Lambda-2 after all, they aren’t just chilling.

OpenAI is of course the A.I. lab turned for-profit now sponsored mostly by Microsoft, it’s not clear if they are still even independent, and/or to what degree.

While ChatGPT is good for the A.I. clickbait writers, and for OpenAI’s PR department, and potentially even negotiations for more funding (with Microsoft), it makes me wonder.

Where on the hype curve should we rate ChatGPT? Twitter used to be a bit more objective than it is today.

GPT-3.5 does feel more alive, given that GPT-3 was itself announced ages ago in May, 2020. GPT-4 is anticipated for the first half of 2023. But OpenAI is not alone any longer in the space as the foundational model builder. Indeed Generative A.I. startups, A.I. labs and decentralized research collectives are forming.

Source: Satya.ai

Generative A.I., GPT-3.5 and things like Davinci-003 and ChatGPT, really are building startups across various use cases if you think “prompts” are an effective BCI, brain to computer interface.

Will text or voice commands predominate? What else can be designed as the optimal interface?

ChatGPT is a playground of A.I.’s no-code possibilities and that’s why I think it’s capture the attention of mostly male tinkerers.

If we needed another masco of hype until GPT-4 hits, we got it. OpenAI delivered it to eager throngs of A.I. enthusiasts.

ChatGPT was trained on a lot of data but no source material, no citations and no links. That’s right, ChatGPT just gives the text. No links. So if you are trying to learn more about the chef behind the recipe, ChatGPT will give you the recipe, and info about the chef, but not links to the actual chef. Talk about a copyright nightmare, but Microsoft and OpenAI are betting - being first will exclude the need for such trivial matters.

After just a matter of days, people are already claiming ChatGPT is, by far, the best chatbot in the world. Nevermind they don’t mention any of the potential concerns, A.I. ethics or limitations.

LLM vs search engine is like saw vs drill

ChatGPT is a fun interface, but how useful is it really?

It’s not going to be an autocomplete for everything, guys.

A.I. is not going to save us from our tedious lives, heck it’s likely to make us even more lonely if I’m being honest.

According to Scott Galloway:

Friendship is dwindling — Americans report fewer close friends than they did thirty years ago.

• 15% of men and 10% of women have no close friends at all.

• That means 1 in 7 men and 1 in 10 women in the U.S. don't have a single friend.

• We need to encourage people to invest in the things that really matter in life — community and friendship.

As people spend more time online and on their screens, they are reporting less friendships as Apps evolve more. Are we being set-up to relate more to A.I and play video games?

Where do you suppose the ChatGPT fanboys are along that spectrum? Take a guess.

ChatGPT is capable of engaging with a huge range of topics, demonstrating big improvements to chatbots seen even a few years ago and generating a fair bit of useful content, but what are the dangers? It doesn’t even cite where it got the info and is prone to making stuff up (that sounds legit).

But the software also fails in a manner similar to other AI chatbots, and the incentive to hype things up, doesn’t practice accountability journalism. It’s all attention seeking and no substance.

Even TechCrunch is putting its weight beyond the edict of Venture Capitalists, that is is hugely transformative: