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And yet you didn't provide a single reference link! Every case of LLM usage that I've seen claimed about those things has been largely a lie -- guess you won't take the opportunity to be the first to present a real example. Just another rumor.


My reference is the daily usage of chatgpt around me (outside of tech circles).

I don’t want to sound like a hard-core LLM believer. I get your point and it’s fair.

I just wanted to point out that the current usage of chatgpt is a lot broader than that of 3D printers even at the peak hype of it.


Outside of tech circles it looks like NFTs: people following hype using tech they don't understand which will be popular until the downsides we're aware of that they are ignorant to have consequences, and then the market will reflect the shift in opinion.


No way.

Everybody under a certain age is using ChatGPT, where they were once using search and friendship/expertises. It’s the number 1 app in the App Store. Copilot use in the enterprise is so seamless, you just talk to PowerPoint or outlook and it formulated what you were supposed to make or write.

It’s not a fad, it is a paradigm change.

People don’t need to understand how it works for it to work.


> It’s the number 1 app in the App Store.

When I checked the iOS App Store just now, something called Love Island USA is the #1 free app. Kinda makes you think….


It's back to #1. The show is towards the end of the season and people need to vote for their favorite couples. Itll drop off the chart soon. ChatGPT will not.

A little surprised to see Threads at 4 though.


I know it's popular; that doesn't mean it's not a fad. Consequences take time. It's easy to use but once you get burned in a serious way by the bot that's still wrong 20% of the time, you'll become more reluctant to put your coin in the slot machine.

Maybe if the AI companies start offering refunds for wrong answers, then the price per token might not be such a scam.


Even if the most bearish predictions turn out to be correct, the comparison of LLMs to NFTs is a galaxy-spanning stretch.

NFTs are about as close to literally useless as it gets, and that was always obvious; 99% of the serious attention paid to them came from hustlers and speculators.

LLMs, for all their limitations, are already good at some things and useful in some ways. Even in the areas where they are (so far) too unreliable for serious use, they're not pure hype and bullshit; they're doing things that would have seemed like magic 10 years ago.


I see it differently: people are switching to chatgpt like they switched to google back in 2005 (from whatever alternative existed back then)

And I mean random people, not tech circles

It’s very different from NFTs in that respect


Not even remotely in the same universe; the difference is ChatGPT is actually having an impact, people are incorporating it day-to-day in a way that NFTs never stood much of a chance.




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