Mind blowing stuff from OpenAI

DaveO said:
I just want a good AI bot to do my mundane tasks at home so I don't need to go to a retirement home when I get old...
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Heh… here's a short story about my parent's relationship dynamics:

Years ago my dad wanted a new computer and told my mom he wanted to buy it.

Mom told him she didn't want one unless it could clean the bathrooms.

He bought the computer and started cleaning the bathrooms.

Mom said, "We'll see how long that lasts." and, after about three months, oddly enough, the bathrooms weren't getting cleaned anymore.

Mom hates computers even more now. And she wishes dad lived in a retirement home.

I'm not sure AI would have helped.
 
They've supposedly released a tool to tell whether text was written by an AI, haven't tried it.

According to Axios:

OpenAI cautions the tool is imperfect. Performance varies based on how similar the text is to the types of writing it was trained on.

It works best on text samples greater than 1,000 words and in English — with performance significantly worse in other languages.

https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier
 
mattgreenrocks said:
I really hate how he oscillates in public statements between “this is the biggest thing ever,” and “I’m concerned it could have adverse societal impact.”
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Agree totally. He seems to oscillate between its potential benefits and horrors. At least he doesn't seem to make totally BS Zuckerberg-like statements.

He's also said it's a "horrible product." And yet let's just plug it into Bing and pocket billions.

https://www.businesstoday.in/techno...oduct-openai-ceo-sam-altman-370284-2023-02-15
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...akes-multibillion-dollar-investment-in-openai
 
Altman’s reticence about his Faustian bargain is entirely understandable. I’m convinced he’s hellbent on making a dent in the world but hasn’t fully bought into the how of that. Add in the fact that you have Paul Graham mentioning that “somebody has to be writing the data that the models are training on”, thereby suggesting there’s a limited shelf life for this tech, and things are just weird right now.

It has plenty of good uses even as just a next level chat bot. But the whole “we’ll sell you a solution (AI text detection) to the problem we created” is sleazy as hell. Were this any other industry, you’d be laughed out of the room.

AI is dog and pony show of a tech industry that is stagnant, bloated, and overly corporate. Big tech is ripe for some creative destruction.
 
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