The Bill Gates "A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it's a platform.” line seems apt - i'm sure they'll figure it out
Re:ChatGPT Plugins
by jschveibinz on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:46PM
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The market will sort this out. If OpenAI decides to make shovels rather than digging for gold (like it should), then the customer facing apps will fight it out for very little margin on top of marketing expenses while OpenAI (or equivalent) is rolling in money.
They're doing the two. They're making shovels and killîng those buying while digging for gold.
Fascinating to hear your perspective on this. I think a lot of people will fall out of the sky. Beeing overtaken before even realizing why.
In germany most of my friends and collegues working SE tech or digital design, often "haven't even tried this Chat something thing" or stopped at "AI images? These wierd small pictures that look like a cpu is high on drugs?"
And dont get me startet on non-tech friends and family. I think we are taking a leap that will let the digital world of 2022 look like amish livestyle.
Re:ChatGPT Plugins
by xxswagmasterxx on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:16PM
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Depends. In my bubble (EE and CS students in Germany) everyone is talking about this.
Re:ChatGPT Plugins
by throwaway4837 on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:14PM
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What I find super impressive now is image generation. I remember just 3-4 years ago the images generated by AI on news articles looked like LSD trip hallucinations. Now they can generate extremely plausible images of any scene you describe. It's absolutely wonderful.
RE being overtaken -- when ChatGPT-3 came out, I saw some startup doing "Automatic UI code writing with ChatGPT and design images", but after seeing OpenAI's multimodal GPT-4... it seems like that startup is no longer needed. I think this will be the case for hundreds of startups that are aiming to add 10% on top of CurrentGPT. Put differently, GPT-4 basically 10x'd GPT-3. So all of those startups doing GPT-3 + 10% are being left behind in the dust of GPT-4.
When I look at the kind of ideas floated around for ChatGPT use, it kinda feels like watching someone invent an internal combustion engine in 1800, and then use it to drive an air conditioner attached to a horse-drawn wagon. Sure, it's a practical solution to a real problem, but it's also going to be moot because the problem won't be relevant soon. I think the vast majority of these startups and their ideas are going to end up like that.
If OpenAI becomes the AI platform of choice, I wonder how many apps on the platform will eventually become native capabilities of the platform itself. This is unlike the Apple App Store, where they just take a commission, and more like Amazon where Amazon slowly starts to provide more and more products, pushing third-party products out of the market.