Pretending ChatGPT isn’t the biggest development in the history of commerce
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Is it neat? Yes. Is it a useful tool? Yes (when they haven’t put a million restrictions and performance limitations on it).
Is it the biggest development in the history of commerce? Almost certainly not. LLMs are a highly-sophisticated game of mad libs, they work even better than many would expect (as Google learned when they bet against them) but they are not general AI or world-changing. It’ll have to be combined with a lot of other tech before it reaches the level we can say “biggest development in the history of commerce”
A properly trained AI can produce an accurate analysis report that takes professionals 90 days to compile, in about half a second. I don’t remember the name of the business, but one business managed to get it to do 8 YEARS worth of one employee’s work in 5 minutes. My boss was telling us about a product that integrates into the code repository and knows how all of the code works. He got a demo and he described a bug to it, it found the problem, fixed it, created a feature branch, pushed it to GitHub, created a pull request, and emailed the admin letting them know a pull request was waiting for them. It has increased my productivity at work by probably 600%. It is a game changer. It may not be the biggest change to commerce ever, but it certainly is in our lifetime. Experts are saying that it will dramatically impact 80% of all jobs on the planet within the next ten years. That’s some fancy mad libs indeed.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Is it neat? Yes. Is it a useful tool? Yes (when they haven’t put a million restrictions and performance limitations on it).
Is it the biggest development in the history of commerce? Almost certainly not. LLMs are a highly-sophisticated game of mad libs, they work even better than many would expect (as Google learned when they bet against them) but they are not general AI or world-changing. It’ll have to be combined with a lot of other tech before it reaches the level we can say “biggest development in the history of commerce”
To date the best use i have seen for LLMs is the summary function in duckduckgo, it makes sense and cites its sources quite well even
A properly trained AI can produce an accurate analysis report that takes professionals 90 days to compile, in about half a second. I don’t remember the name of the business, but one business managed to get it to do 8 YEARS worth of one employee’s work in 5 minutes. My boss was telling us about a product that integrates into the code repository and knows how all of the code works. He got a demo and he described a bug to it, it found the problem, fixed it, created a feature branch, pushed it to GitHub, created a pull request, and emailed the admin letting them know a pull request was waiting for them. It has increased my productivity at work by probably 600%. It is a game changer. It may not be the biggest change to commerce ever, but it certainly is in our lifetime. Experts are saying that it will dramatically impact 80% of all jobs on the planet within the next ten years. That’s some fancy mad libs indeed.