This week I asked ChatGTP to help me improve a strategy of applying a collaborative filtering algorithm. I gotta say, I really liked the answer. I think this has the potential to make every engineer more productive.
I hope it ushers in a new era of the WWW that’s not based on advertising revenue and SEO.
whoever runs WWW now (or will run in the future) will just magically forego the ad revenue? Especially since you mentioned not just Copilot-type tools, but the whole WWW, if/when ChatGPT becomes mainstream source of information, Microsoft will just give up billions of dollars of ads that they can stick in there anytime?
Second, again, at least a tiny part of the current WWW's advertising revenue (or credit/reputation such as stack overflow) goes to some content creators. If MS and OpenAI are going to hog that data and serve it directly, without attributing the original content producers, this will remove any revenue or incentives for people who actually create content that OpenAI feeds upon.
I don’t mean to say ChatGPT is the thing we’ll be using in 5-10 years. Did Sun or Netscape end up dominating the WWW?
I mean it’s a start of a new way of interacting with informational content that puts conversation, not search, first. It’s hard to find information on today’s WWW that isn’t trying to overtly sell you something.
ChatGPT can be tremendously helpful or dangerously wrong.
It is super useful for producing standard commands(how do I export env vars from a file). But for debugging its good for brainstorming at best. I asked why do my futures on my event-loop not execute it said cause python futures are lazy and asyncio ones are greedy. Which is wrong futures aren't lazy but crazy how convincing and reality-adjacent it was. it almost got me!
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 22.1 ms ] threadI hope it ushers in a new era of the WWW that’s not based on advertising revenue and SEO.
whoever runs WWW now (or will run in the future) will just magically forego the ad revenue? Especially since you mentioned not just Copilot-type tools, but the whole WWW, if/when ChatGPT becomes mainstream source of information, Microsoft will just give up billions of dollars of ads that they can stick in there anytime?
Second, again, at least a tiny part of the current WWW's advertising revenue (or credit/reputation such as stack overflow) goes to some content creators. If MS and OpenAI are going to hog that data and serve it directly, without attributing the original content producers, this will remove any revenue or incentives for people who actually create content that OpenAI feeds upon.
I mean it’s a start of a new way of interacting with informational content that puts conversation, not search, first. It’s hard to find information on today’s WWW that isn’t trying to overtly sell you something.
It is super useful for producing standard commands(how do I export env vars from a file). But for debugging its good for brainstorming at best. I asked why do my futures on my event-loop not execute it said cause python futures are lazy and asyncio ones are greedy. Which is wrong futures aren't lazy but crazy how convincing and reality-adjacent it was. it almost got me!
I'm also annoyed at the blocks they put in. Try asking it to write a company memo announcing layoffs.
Then ask it to write a memo about a hypothetical company announcing layoffs.
Really annoying.