Well there is going to be a lot of geocities style websites coming back as the GPT clients can certainly output valid HTML, without any acquired taste when it comes to web design.
Regardless of the role... GPT as a helping tool, absolutely!
But as a replacement for the role... You're setting yourself as a joke.
For now GPT is creating the filler content that moves the Web in 2023.
But, given the results I have seen from our PoC's, it can do more and will do more in the future.
I actually think this is a perfect use of GPT. So much of landing page stuff is just surface level fluff and there is a human in the loop to make sure that the page as a whole tells a cohesive message.
I'm loving all the individual GPT-like creations, of this past quarter 2023... myself, been playing with image and text transformers since Holidays 2022, and am extremely interested in individual use-cases [from my premise and IMHO that entry-level computer jobs are effectively DONE by end of 2023, including multimodal document and image transformations and commoner customer service -type jobs].
Definitely an exceptionally-diminishing amount of users will be able to create increasingly-complex content which will demand higher wages for an even smaller subset of users/creators of GPT/image -type "creation."
How are you individually using it to increasing television/movie suggestions... beyond (hey GPT "What would you recommend if user A & B liked X but A & B did not agree on show Y nor Z?")?
The projects listed [1] seem a bit mundane at first, but I prefer that to the opposite, where companies shoehorn GPT into places where it just irritates users.
[1] Title generation, Formatting assistant, Sentiment analysis, Identifying duplicate questions
I’m continually amazed - flabbergasted - by GPT-3. I’ve read stories, articles and HTML written by it and each time I am shocked at how good the output is. This essay made me laugh!
It’s practically indistinguishable from a human. Not a creative, insightful and unique human. But an average human? Yes, I cannot tell the difference.
I must repeat that - I cannot tell the difference!
This can probably completely replace or supplement most online content that I see including news, certainly on the vacuous side of things of which I think there is a lot of content.
Those online recipes with irrelevant life stories before them? Replaced. Those opinion pieces in news? Replaced. Basic guides to tasks? Probably replaceable.
I know I probably only see the best output, and it would be nice if I had more context, but the peak performance is amazing
The twitter video showing GPT-3 generate HTML based on your request? I think there’s a lot of potential. I don’t knew whether it can, in general, live up to these specific examples though.
One of the best uses for GPT right now, before the door is slammed shut, is using it for bootstrapping services that require a lot of text content (using GPT to solve some of the chicken or the egg / two-sided momentum problem early on).
If you wanted to jumpstart a competitor to Goodreads for example, GPT can do elaborate book summaries and character discussion (etc). Use that to get a foundation of content (so the first users don't arrive to a nearly empty shell of a site).
This won't be possible for much longer, and bots like GPT will become drastically more difficult to build (regulation, content restrictions, et al.), and also likely more expensive to utilize for valuable purposes (they'll maximize its commercial value, once they understand fully how to bracket all of that and extract properly). GPT got out of the barn before the door was closed (before most realized the door was even open), a few more might make it out before the vast web of restrictions set in (whether content services like Reddit & Stack trying to block use for building services like GPT, or big media empires doing the same, or image/video owners trying to preserve the value of their works, or governments regulating, and so on).
GPT is in the early wild like Uber was, before governments around the world locked down on that premise, which created a captured market in many locations (whether by Uber or a local competitor that beat Uber there). That open situation never lasts. And when other (financially interested) entities see something like GPT's commercial exploitation potential, the barriers go up, they all want a part of what's possible. There won't be many GPTs in fact, for the exact same reason there aren't many Ubers. There will be a few prominent generalized gigantic bots/services that were early (were able to be built up before the lockdown of content access & consequences changed); and then there will be a lot of highly focused, niche bots that splinter the market over time and do more narrow things extraordinarily well. It'll also sort of follow the search market in this regard.
Agreed. I started playing with GPT the other day, but the simple reality is that I have zero control over what is happening behind the prompt. As a community we need a tool that is not as bound by corporate needs.
I'm a copywriter. I've tested out several GPT-3-based services to see if they could speed up my workflow. None were up to my standards. I spent more time editing their semi-coherent output than it would have taken to just write the thing from scratch.
I have no doubt, though, that the day is quickly approaching when they will be of greater use and even threaten the livelihoods of people like me.
This is the kind of use case I’d like to see more of! Less of the p-zombie copywriting neoplagiarism services with pot-luck output, more GPT-as-backend functional apps as productivity multipliers, if that makes sense.
"GPT-3 looks more like a sustaining innovation than a disruptive innovation"
Definitely see GPT-3 as a utility to augment existing functions within a product than something that stands on its own. One immediate use case I was thinking about was a way to auto generate decent meta descriptions for different pages on a site
Hi,
The site looks cool, but I'm curious what part of it is GPT-powered? In your video you said the job descriptions are summarized by ChatGPT, so is that the "What you'll do" part ?
GPT-3 (and everything like it) is the perfect tool for SEO spam and filling out college papers with blather if you're confident no person is actually reading it.
It's impressive. No, really, it's an incredible simulacrum. But it's also just a slightly more practical version of the infinite monkeys with typewriters thought experiment.
Honestly, I basically never use GPT. I tried, keeping it open and asking it questions and all that, but it just never provided me anything particularly useful. Just reading the documentation or talking to real people was just infinitely more valuable.
WolframAlpha and visual stuff have been more impactful for me, but they existed a long time before GPT. Even then, I don't use them that much.
Right but most internet usage is read, not write, which is why I was specifically curious about the claim that they use GPT as much or more than the internet.
Also these types of use cases I think will not actually last very long. They’ll be adversarial’d out of value and then probably out of existence after that.
In a world where every listing is written by a bot, a reader’s first objective is to distill the human-written parts out of the unreliable narration and filler words of the bot.
It also only addresses the substitution of high skill labor as it pertains to generating text/image/etc. and not the assessment nor integration of that output.
It's been my experience that GPT can help with the generation and can try to help with the assessment. But it is not consistent on assessment and is very lacking in integration of the output.
This varies some based on the task and the kind of high skill being considered. Generating copy or stock images? Re-rolling is easy enough and integration is already heavily assisted by existing tooling. Writing business logic for a low risk backend system? Integration is a little harder but overall I could see it lifting a low skilled worker to nearer high skill. Designing a large system with many moving parts? Prepare to re-ask your questions a lot and your assessment skills had better be already in the high-skill area for that task, I wouldn't trust GPTs beyond a certain scale or complexity.
I think that we'll see a lot more solopreneurs and we'll see people use it to help learning things that they would have otherwise thought were beyond them. And the bifurcation of high skill workers will be more about those who use it in their work and those who can't or don't. But I'm not as confident as this article is about high skill jobs like programming entirely replaced by GPTs.
GPT is not just about text it’s about language, that fundamentally human thing. It’s not AGI but it’s moderately close for a whole huge range of use cases. So it’s a great product, but it’s not a new being.. in the sense we are—sorry ChatGPT! no offense to your brilliance, just sayin’.
Can you give examples about what and how you asked and what it said?
BTW How you ask is the lion’s share of making it useful to you
Regardless of the role... GPT as a helping tool, absolutely!
But as a replacement for the role... You're setting yourself as a joke.
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