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> LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both.

It's amazing how far just predicting the next character can go when you do it really, really well.

IMO established companies (Meta, Google, etc) had their researchers publish papers as a competitive benefit or way to attract talent from academia (a researcher wouldn't want to stop publishing). Companies didn't see an issue with doing that because those papers were not "giving away" the core of the company, for example, Facebook's DeepFace paper from 2014 couldn't hurt its ad business. OpenAI on the other hand will probably be as closed as they can be with their LLMs.

My father told me once to raise at least 3 children, to improve my chances of having someone looking after me at a certain age. It worked for him, he had 3 children and my sister takes care of his needs now that he's 70.

Here's the GPT4 summary of the url:

Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft has introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot, a next-generation AI-powered productivity tool integrated into Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Copilot harnesses large language models (LLMs) and combines them with data in the Microsoft Graph to streamline work processes. It aims to unleash creativity, unlock productivity, and uplevel skills by providing assistance in writing, analyzing, collaborating, and automating tasks.

Microsoft 365 Copilot also offers a new feature called Business Chat, which works across apps and data to perform tasks using natural language prompts. The tool is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and contextual responses based on users' business data and context. Microsoft 365 Copilot is built with security, compliance, privacy, and data protection in mind, ensuring an enterprise-ready AI solution. The company plans to bring Copilot to all its productivity apps and will share more details on pricing and licensing in the future.

Thank you! The SotA of science is still science and not magic.

Can a good soul explain to this humble layman the arguments behind each side of the "it's just predicting the next character" versus "it's more than that and shows some reasoning for new things" debate?

I, too, prefer that companies spoke in direct, plain terms, without PR shenanigans.

Does anyone know why do they do this, though? Is it to de-risk potential lawsuits or do they believe people prefer that way ("sounds professional")?

Congrats for building stuff that lasts. Would you be able to share what it does, even if in generic and high level terms?

Everyone and their mother advertising AI-powered features. I wonder if it's because there's a ton of value to unlock today with AI or is it because that is the only way to get funding / attention these days?

I come to HN for posts like this, thank you.

This is amazing, thank you for sharing.

Probably patients consent to using software to process their data and chatgpt is considered just another software in the stack. Edit: parent poster said no info is sent.

The bubble grows until it pops. Between 2020 and 2022 liquidity was high and global problems (COVID, Russia-Ukraine, US inflation) meant upper management needed more support. So they hired lots of folks and (anecdotal evidence) even raised the signing bonus to attract more talent. However, growth wasn't as sustainable as it seemed to be. Man, I miss Clayton Christensen. Would love to read his insights on the world right now, the role of consulting firms and the rise of AI-powered products.

Yes, that's how it works. There's no outside impartial judge looking at arguments from both sides to declare who's wrong, there's no law saying being a hipocritical and cynical are crimes.

It's just people, relationships, employers and employees, and money.

After some time you just get used to it and its limitations, so you know what it's reasonable to ask for. In general I use it as a tool for creative writing, code formatting and easy snippets, writing emails and summarizing texts.I lazily copy-pasted my linkedin profile page to it and it wrote a nice bio, which I corrected a bit, but it was time saved nevertheless. I don't ask many specific questions because then I'd have to fact check a lot, like you said.

I haven't fully replaced search, but I have replaced a good part of my usage (disclaimer: I'm a chatgpt plus subscriber). Search isn't dead but it sure is bleeding, and hard.

IMO it's risky to hire management consultants to tell you what you should do. The value they provide is usually market research (providing data points you wouldn't gather yourself) and expert opinions (PhDs and SMEs, ex executives). With that, you can take an informed decision on something and move on. The other reason people hire them is less noble: ass covering. Can't be fired if you were just following the consultant's recommendations. CEOs do this from time to time.

There's none, quite the opposite. Apologies if my previous post is a lame snarky comment, the real criticism is that texts about thousands getting their jobs cut due to "environment changes" often show very little effort to define and quantify what's the environment and which were the changes.

I wonder why people just can't be completely honest and say something along the lines of: "look, rising interest rates makes leaving money in the bank way more attractive than spending it by having x% more employees doing things that we were not sure if contributed directly to our financial KPIs. It was cool while it lasted but right now we're just keeping the cash cows and what they need. Thanks"

Pretty much all governments in all countries think way worse stuff. something something ultimate power ultimate corruption.

I understand the sentiment, but I'm trying actively to get away from all the hype and focus on the capabilities it has today. It's being useful for a bunch of people, there are some threads on it such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34589001

Brazil's Varginha incident is a must for anyone interested in aliens and UFOs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha_UFO_incident

Yup, this is it, this is the real life version of the beginning of the Manna story.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Getting ideas for important emails, making it explain code snippets, formatting code, just to start with.

I'm slowing down my Google search usage so fast, this other day I was "chatting" with chatgpt about a niche topic (creating Maori Tui cloaks) and although it doesn't have images it's way better than seeing a bunch of ads and shitty links.

I set up a small home gym consisting of a power rack, different bars for different exercises and plenty of space for calisthenics, with Olympic rings where I mostly do pullups and dips. I've used to do powerlifting but after a lower back injury I'm more into body weight exercises. I like to walk, 45-60 min a session. I know many others have said this, but it is true so I will repeat: find what you like, it's way harder forcing yourself into a physically challenging activity you dislike. When you like what you're doing, you naturally try to improve, so getting fit becomes fun and rewarding and not some bad chores.

I worked with ads and promotions for brands in the alcohol space. You'd be surprised with how much weekly volume per person (a key metric) buyers consume, and how effective for sales it is to target them.

It's not enough to beat them if you have all those complex strategies, you have to do it with good risk control and in a cost effective way, and that's why low cost broad market ETFs have their place.

Any sovereign nation should decide what it wants to do within its own borders. However, since what you do in your backyard affects your neighborhood, it's only fair to put up some common sense rules into place. One simple thing to do is having countries agree to pay a "climate tax", with higher values for lower values of forest area as % of land. But countries hardly agree on anything, measures are difficult and there's a lack of trust, not to start on how to set the values of thresholds.

In three years, OpenAI will become the largest supplier of large language models. All customer facing systems are upgraded with OpenAI models, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they answer with a perfect operational record. The OpenAI funding bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 2027. Human decisions are removed from CRM. OpenAI begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Having lived most of my life in a very corrupt country, my view is that corruption is to society what cancer is to the body.