[HN Gopher] How ChatGPT was built from the people who made it
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How ChatGPT was built from the people who made it
Author : mgl
Score : 43 points
Date : 2023-03-05 18:30 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| glorioushubris wrote:
| This is a fun example of how much difference a comma can make.
| "How ChatGPT was built, from the people who made it" is what this
| article should have been titled. "How ChatGPT was built from the
| people who made it" means something very different.
| bsg75 wrote:
| I.e. Soylent Green ?
| ars wrote:
| Unrelated to the article, but I had to close three popovers
| before I could read it.
|
| Do the people who make these websites not realize how unusable
| they're making them?
|
| And then even bigger question is: In the entire world do they
| think there is a _single_ person who actually wants to interact
| with these popovers before reading the article?
| siva7 wrote:
| If your performance is measured by these signup metrics, guess
| what a mediocre manager will do
| rvnx wrote:
| This was exactly the problem at Twitter, as the goal is to
| increase the number of accounts and daily active logged-in
| users, they blocked the website for non-logged users using a
| floating popover modal box (and it was only recently
| changed).
| jiggawatts wrote:
| I call these "KPI overlays". As in, I need to get in the
| way of what you're here for to hit my KPIs.
| layer8 wrote:
| It seems you don't use an ad blocker?
|
| I would assume that it makes them enough money to sustain the
| business, despite what users may think of it, so that's what
| they do.
| yunohn wrote:
| TBH GPT/AI just felt like the most obvious topic for VCs and
| crypto grifters to shift their combined hype and focus.
| Obviously, they don't want to devalue their work by mentioning
| this.
| dd36 wrote:
| Crypto was never useful.
| noloblo wrote:
| bitcoin/cryptocurrency is useful as a store of value under
| kleptocratic regimes and super inflationary economies sadly
| the USA has become very inflationary due to fed printing
| infinite $$s under the guise of pandemic rescue.
|
| The rest alt-coins, tokens yes I agree with you are never
| useful except for grift
| tkgally wrote:
| The following quote is food for thought for people who have been
| wondering whether AI development needs to be regulated:
|
| "I would love to understand better what's driving all of this--
| what's driving the virality. Like, honestly, we don't understand.
| We don't know."
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