ChatGPT user sessions are down 29% since May
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First, massive hype drove tons of users to try this flashy new thing. The talk of the town. But the vast majority of them were not genuinely looking to integrate a new tool into their toolbox. They just wanted to know what all the fuss was about.
We see the same thing with Meta's Threads app. Massive hype created a huge spike at first, but the majority of those users (myself included in this case) had no real intention of making Threads a daily part of their life. They were just curious to see what the big deal was.
I'm willing to bet (but obviously don't have the data) that the number of users who use it multiple times per week (if not multiple times per day) is climbing, and climbing fast.
Second, I'm less interested in knowing ChatGPT's adoption rate than I am in generative AI's adoption rate overall. ChatGPT was the introduction for most people, but for those of us who chose to make it a core part of our toolbox we quickly discovered a wide array of other incredible generative AI apps.
Finally, I think anyone who is actively using generative AI for their work is never going to go back. It's too darn useful. It may take a while for the general public to wrap their head around how to make this a part of their lives, but for those of us who do, the benefits are profound. We see the reality of it and don't need to see trend numbers to inherently grok what's happening on the ground.
For modern info/searches/updated knowledge I'll use phind sometimes bing as an alternative.
I use claude for writing - its way more creative/expressive I've almost written a full novel using this and it actually doesn't suck like most AI generated thigns, albeit - I'm breaking things down into pages, and being very specific on minor details/etc... it's just helping craft the visual imagery like descriptive writing etc, and I'll add my own flair on some parts that I'm more passionate about.
I use amazon codewhisperer for coding, and some other vscode extensions that aren't openai related that do a pretty decent job.
I think the questions should be -- has generative ai using language models increased or decreased?
Like you mentioned meta's threads, this would be akin to - asking the question - has social media posts across threads, and twitter averaged less than before threads, about the same, or more?
If you have, what are the differences?
Not having to deal with the attitudes of: "Why are you doing it this way" thrown at you while standing in front of an online audience has uplifted my worry on programming.
With GPT, having a non-judgmental "you could do it that way, but what about this way?" is really pleasant. Especially for someone who's not a dev/programmer.
it's very weird to think that i've chosen to replace actual humans with a bot because the bot is nicer.
"Low" -> GPT presents much more succinct answers with less to wade through for things like "XYZ Error".
"High" -> I'm able to "prep" GPT by asking about certain topics and how to accomplish them and then have some back and forth to discern a plausible solution in a way that's much more contextual.
In both cases, the other big win is that I don't have abstract out my questions to some generic but representative case, I can just provide exactly the code or scenario I'm working with and get answers back. Huge productivity gains.
I would be very interested in an integration with Wolfram Alpha and an LLM; I heard Stephen Wolfram talk of this on Lex Fridman’s podcast. Essentially, I still open Python as my calculator, and my search engine for currency conversion; quick access to data sets and ease of composition is not in my toolbelt yet.
GPT-4 already has a Wolfram Alpha plugin.
I tried using it as a replacement for a search engine but having to double and triple check the output generated became tiresome.
It kind of works for writing simple functions but anything beyond that I found it gets it wrong. Again, double/triple checking became tiresome.
I wonder if any other professional fields have found a way to improve their workflows with it?
Otherwise, no.
Someone was going to write a scraper to look all this information up based on company sites or SEC reporting, but chatgpt4 was able to do this in less than 5 minutes (of course YMMV for veracity, but in this case an 80/90% solution was a much better start than spending a day scraping hundreds of sites.
There are things that you can verify instantly. Example: "in gnu units, how do you convert days to hours and minutes". After 3 googles I could not find the syntax to use multiple output units. ChatGPT got it in one try.
It’s absolutely incredible for content creation in a few ways:
1. For content posts, a good prompt can turn a 2-hour writing session into a 15 minute editing session.
2. Creating texts in foreign languages. This can be content, ads… anything. It’s still better to run whatever you make by a native speaker, but they typically only need to edit rather than create. As such, the time/cost per unit of content is much lower.
3. Combine AIs to make multimedia content — for example, one AI for a script, another AI for voices, and another AI for images. We have only scratched the surface of what is possible here.
Fwiw, I just started a project using multiple AIs to develop content for foreign language learning. It’s incredibly powerful and ridiculously fast compared to previously existing methods.
It only three current limits, or I'd use it even more:
- Length
- Ability to import data/documents (Data Analysis is limited)
- Nothing newer than 2021.
Write short email: "where the fuck is X, you promised it will be here by monday, i will complain to management if you dont deliver"
use chat gpt to convert it into polite reminder email that will hit you will escalate to management, without any potential HR issues.
(Your point is still right though, <5% had started school when the ChatGPT data was collected)
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/25/back-to-s...
Today (August 30), yes, most are back.
But, the stats are for July, where (other than summer sessions, which are usually optional or remedial) most schools are between academic years (even “year round” schools often have a somewhat longer break from late June through July compared to other breaks, to accommodate a brief optional/remedial summer session.) Most schools return with a new school year sometime in August or occasionally early September.
It’s very bold to state “ChatGPT user sessions went down by X” when not taking into account:
- iOS app launch (May ‘23)
- Android app launch (July ‘23)
- GPT3.5 turbo and GPT4 API general availability (July ‘23)
- the explosion of apps that users shift to after 3.5-turbo/4 API GA
I worked with ChatGPT’s web interface daily before the mobile app was launched, and my usage is now at say 70% web / 30% app. And countless extra “sessions” integrated directly in code editor (Cursor)
Maybe there's money to be made in the integrations such as visual studio?
The community has absolutely run far further with all the various models than I think anyone thought reasonably possible, and at least I am phenomenally grateful that this entire episode has not pushed us over into absolute cloud dependency, even if it all started in deeply confused circumstances.
-What's the name for that thing that is on the bottom of the room again?
-It sounds like you're referring to the "floor." The floor is the flat, usually horizontal surface that makes up the bottom of a room or any other space. Is there anything specific you'd like to know about it?
The "wow" and "hype" factor are gone/dying down now but I still think its an incredibly useful tool.
I think the main issue they'll have is competition with other models vs AI tools going away. If they can lockin/innovate, I think they'll be in a fine position.
I never really used it in a "Here's something I want you to write, go do it." I used it as a tutor and asked tons of questions, and in a way "pair-programmed" with it around a lot of concepts, asked an insane amount of questions, took it's code, rewrote it, feed it back, asked more questions.
When I worked at Microsoft at 18, there was a legendary engineer who blocked off 1 or 2 90 minute sessions per week for me to just ask questions and for us to pair program. That was the most productive (with regards to skill development/ learning) period of my life. Nearly 15 years later, I think my April through June time with ChatGPT (and again, how I used it), leveled me up in a similar way.
I don't really have a strong point to make, just that, for me, it levelled up certain edge skills like crazy, and I don't really need it as much anymore (...until I need to learn a new concept/ language/ whatever). It's wishful thinking, but, I'd like to imagine the decline is due to "AI" to human knowledge transfer
But for anything stackoverflow-like, where I'm really stuck, and need to formulate a question, instead of dealing with a snarky mod, I just use ChatGPT now...
Phind, and Claude2 imho are often much better than Bing/chatGPT for most of my use-cases.
Generally, people can tell the difference after a while and it looses its wow factor, me thinks.
Chat is just the beginning, there are infinite streams of money generators, probably first interesting dozen will come out from things like githubnext.com
From the comments here I ended up finding MacGPT: https://www.macgpt.com
With it I can use the Open AI API that costs about half a cent per message to use instead of the web UI.
It’s not the magic oracle that AI influencers want it to be, but it’s also a useful, sometimes very useful, tool.
If they lose all the people trying to write poetry and retain all the expensive engineers leveraging it to save $100 an hour times 100s of hours, then they'll be able to capture a slice of a fat market.
https://the-decoder.com/openai-shatters-revenue-expectations...