From my perspective it’s just _confusing_ to work in AI right now. We have some massive models that are doing some really neat stuff, and apparently hundreds of millions of people are using them—but I keep wondering: to do _what_, exactly? I’m not asking what the models can do, I’m asking what people want the models to do every day, all the time.

I’ve been shown some neat pictures people made that they thought were cool. I don’t know that I need this every day.

I’ve seen examples of “write an email to my boss”. It would take me longer to explain to ChatGPT what I want than to write these myself.

I’ve seen “write a snippet of code” demos. But I hardly care about this compared to designing a good API; or designing software that is testable, extensible, maintainable, and follows reasonable design principles.

In fact, no one in my extended sphere of friends and family has asked me anything about chatGPT, midjourney, or any of these other models. The only people I hear about these models from are other tech people.

I can see that these models are significantly better than anything before, but I can’t see yet the “killer app”. (For comparison, I don’t remember anyone in my orbit predicting search or social networking being killer apps for the internet—but we all expected things like TV and retail sales to book online.)

What am I missing?

You’re asking “what’s so big about GUIs? Literally nobody has asked to move a pointer around a screen”.

It’s the use cases these thing enable that are important.

Today, I wrote a draft product announcement. Only after I was done did I realize I had written it in a really impersonal third person (“users will be able to”). No big deal, but maybe 10-20 minutes of work to make it energetic and second person (“now you can…”).

30 seconds with chatgpt. “Rewrite with more energy, in the second person, using best practices for announcements”).

Six months ago I would never have asked for that. Today it was glorious and let me move on to focus on more important things.

I mean Google revolutionized search. Apple revolutionized personal computing.

OpenAI revolutionized… rewriting things with slightly different wording?

I’ve seen so many breathless people posting “this would have taken me so long to search” and then I type 3 keywords from their massive prompt they crafted and find it instantly on Google. We’re talking 1000x or more faster. I feel like the same is happening in your comment. How often have I thought “damn I wish I wrote this blog post ever so slightly differently” in my life? Maybe a handful of times? And yes I’m including all generalizations of that question.

But certainly fake girlfriends and summarization will be mid size fields. Image generation has some mid size potential. But these will be spread between many companies.

I really think it has uses no doubt, but is it a revolution? Where? It’s not creative in the valuable sense - media, art, fashion, etc all will adopt it marginally but ultimately it will actually only serve to further the desire for genuine human experience, and cohesive creativity that we see it really falls flat at. It saves some marginal time perhaps if you’re ok sounding like a robot.

Taking into account the downsides it looks like a hype bubble right now to me, and a draw in the long run. There’s just a whole lot of tech people trying to cash in on the hype.

You can program GPT in English.

Let me repeat that: You can program GPT in English. ENGLISH!

You're complaining about the first nuclear test bomb being impractical and uninteresting. How will this change the world? That huge monstrosity had to be affixed to the top of a test gantry and took years of effort by a veritable army of the best and brightest to make! No way it could change war, or geopolitics, or anything. No way..

This is the day after Trinity. The bomb has gone off. A lot of physicists are very excited, some are terrified, and the military is salivating. The politicians are confused and scared, and the general public doesn't even know yet.

That doesn't mean the world hasn't changed, forever.

> You can program GPT in English.

> Let me repeat that: You can program GPT in English. ENGLISH!

How?

Let me repeat that: How?

I had a little script that from time to time parses a list of jobs from a specific board, extracts some categories, inserts them into an SQLite and have a frontend that displays them to me in a way I want.

The board has since changed some things which would mean maybe 2 hours of commitment from me to update the script.

How do I program GPT in English. ENGLISH! To do that for me? What are the steps involved? I've been using ChatGPT and GPT-4 for awhile and I can't imagine what the steps are to make this happen without a lot of back and forth. I can't imagine how to program the infrastructure. I can't imagine how the API endpoint is more than a fancy autocomplete. I need help understanding what it means that I can program it in ENGLISH! (I can also program it in my country's language for what it's worth).

> That doesn't mean the world hasn't changed, forever.

I sort of agree with this.

Honestly don't think it will be long before gpt can read this comment, then politely ask you for the urls of the job board and your git repo and 2 seconds later you will have a pull request to review

> Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, autonomously develops and manages businesses to increase net worth. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI.