Re:Apple squandered the Holy Grail
by badgersnake on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:37AM
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Yep you can tell it that it gave you the wrong answer and it will apologise and give you a different wrong answer.
Article author here. Thanks! I've found writing on stream to be really hard, but it's getting easier with practice. One of the more frustrating parts is trying to get the pure thought nuance out onto the page in a way that reflects the nuance as it is in my head. I think I'm getting closer to it, but who knows.
I agree with the premise that it is not the text stream or the coversation history that makes the ChatGPT useful - It is multifaceted. It's an interface, and also a intelligence at your disposal. Even if you took some abilities away from ChatGPT, such as spitting out real world facts, it could still be used for summarizing text.
These models are stochastic though, so saving conversations with elaborate context so they're actually useful in the domain you need them to be useful in is a fundamental feature. The alternative to that is saving a document to copy-paste in as a "startup prompt" of things it needs to know contextually, which is kind of silly.
Really loved this article overall, but I have to super-disagree here. The core of ChatGPT is you can have a conversation with a computer program.
Take away saving history and you can still have a conversation with a computer program (see ephemeral chats).
Take away typing one word at a time and you still have a conversation with a computer program (see non-streaming API / batch API).
But major props for writing this live on a twitch stream, benefit of the doubt there my friend.