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Dec 14, 2022Liked by Alberto Romero

For me personally, I like to hear more of the criticism of AI, simply because its so lacking out there. Everyone is talking about the greatness of AI😀。So for chatgpt, people are are again saying it will replace google search. Bing try to incorporate chatgpt into their search in perplexity.ai. I would like to hear what’s your view of this possibilities ?

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Dec 14, 2022·edited Dec 14, 2022Liked by Alberto Romero

Great stuff. Through a summation prompt, I compared this article to how I use ChatGPT to enhance business processes and this is what ChatGPT generated:

The main difference between using ChatGPT as a creative tool, as explained by The Algorithmic Bridge, and using it for enhancing businesses, as suggested by XYZ company is the intended outcome. The Algorithmic Bridge suggests using ChatGPT as a tool to enhance creativity by exploring possibilities and generating ideas that are not bound to the constraints of reality. On the other hand, XYZ company suggests using ChatGPT to improve businesses by providing solutions to specific problems and generating content that is aligned with the goals and objectives of the business. In other words, the use of ChatGPT for creativity is focused on exploration and experimentation, whereas its use for enhancing businesses is focused on achieving specific, practical results.

What are your thoughts on this?

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Quick note: the person who tried to summarize their book (and make additions to it) using ChatGPT in the linked tweet was using ChatGPT incorrectly. The tweeter said they pasted their entire book into the bot, and went off of ChatGPT’s response to that input. Problem being, ChatGPT’s max input is 4096 tokens which is probably ~4000 wordsish. The policy in cases like this is to just take the first 4096 tokens and ignore the rest. So, the bot probably had access to something like the table of contents and a few pages of the first chapter (depending on intro/preface/etc.). There are better ways to do book summaries with ChatGPT.

I’ve been really enjoying your essays, keep up the great work! I especially liked your piece on the four filters of ai knowledge... I use that framework daily and have shared that essay with friends.

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Awesome roundup! Going to add this as a link in my last post. Haven’t seen such a comprehensive review of prompt tactics.

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Dec 14, 2022Liked by Alberto Romero

Hi Alberto,

Briefly, as a general principle, we're now in an era when a healthy objective balanced review weighing the benefits and costs of emerging technologies is less useful, due to the scale of the emerging tools. You know, it doesn't matter if a technology has many amazing incredible benefits if the price tag is the collapse of civilization.

More on point, your post has me wondering if technologies like ChatGPT will serve to promote writers to editors. We'll spend less time typing and more time reviewing, considering, evaluating, and correcting? As example, factory workers now spend less time doing mindless grunt work, and more time managing the overall operations, presumably a higher order of thinking.

On the positive side, you've got me wondering the degree to which technologies like ChatGPT might serve as companions to lonely old people.

I'm particularly interested in how interactive text generators might be married to animated faces to deepen the illusion of real world human conversation. Face photos can already be animated with text, but doing so in a real time interactive manner would seem to require a lot of processing power.

Are you aware of any developments in this arena?

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Brilliant, funny and useful. Thanks a lot for this meta-manual ! 😎

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Thanks for the shoutout!

All my best prompt injections and general useful prompts are in this repo: https://github.com/abilzerian/GPT-4-Prompt-Library

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