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Yesterday my phone provider informed me they are offering an AI virtual assistant to answer calls. Is this slow?

I feel like the difference is about the product. On search engines its like you are browsing a catalog or magazine. You know what is an ad, and there are many options to choose from. With a Chatbot it is more similar to talking to a person where they give you a direct answer to your question (instead of just handing you a piece of paper with a bunch of options). I think the format makes all the difference. You expect when you are talking with a "person" to be given un manipulated information. You don't expect this person is taking money in the background to influence what is said. You do know politicians purchase advertising too??

I am one of the fools who believed they wouldnt go the advertising route and have commented as much. To me it does not make sense to monitize this product for ads because it muddies the waters of truth and an ad free or local run LLM could easily destroy their business because no one has true loyalty to open ai.

No thank you.. I am waiting at this point for an open source local alternative. Not looking for a new monopoly... Also not a fan of the "plugin store" concept. Why not just keep it in the background. Why should I need to "install" and select plugins at all. Just do the leg work in the background and feed me the results.. Seems like OpenAI is intentionally hamstringing themselves so they can shoe horn more opportunities for profit. Waiting for competition to catch up...

We have essentially what is the 'smartest "person" in the world' being bribed to say what advertisers want instead of just giving the truth. 'best x product' wont return the best product but a garbage product which paid the most in advertising.

So disappointed in the direction of these things..

Because they are completely different business models. If OpenAI decides to become an advertising behemoth then I would show concern. Right now they use your data for training (when they use it).

Just use the API? It deletes your data after 30 days...

Google takes your data and sells it. Literally making your data available to the highest bidder. Is OpenAI doing that? If Google existed in its current form during the early internet it would be classified in the same category as Bonzai Buddy. Spyware. That is what Google is. So I can very reasonably understand why people would trust OpenAI with data they wouldn't trust Google with. OpenAI hasn't spit in the face of its users yet.

We are a small business that provides a service. In business more than 30 years. We never win our disputes dispite providing mountains of evidence. At this point we dont even respond to them we simply file a lawsuit and add all our court fees on top. We have won 100% of our cases. 100% while presenting literally the same evidence we would in the dispute process. Banks and the credit card processors are accesories to fraud plain and simple. Either a class action lawsuit needs to happen or legistation does.

The reality is that ChatGPT, while not yet advanced enough to surpass Google, is just the beginning... Prior to ChatGPT, it was difficult to imagine a world without Google's dominance. Now it is very clear that Google has a real threat.

It's not just about ChatGPT version 1. It's about the potential for chatbot technology to bypass Google altogether. While the answers provided by ChatGPT may not be perfect right now, what happens when they are close to perfect? Why would you use a traditional search engine when you can get the information you need in a far more efficient manner?

Google isn't at code red right now because of ChatGPT V1 but because of the next 10 years of chatbots.

For me, I have already changed my searching behavior for a quite a few (not all) queries .. A lot of my queries these days go ChatGPT -> Brave Search -> Google. Google being third down the list for me.

Because no one believes a random person can find arbitrage opportunities that hedge funds or high frequency traders are not already exploiting.. In this case I think most people are wrong. I think it is possible to still find arbitrage opportunities in the open market.

Taking issue with any word with the word "man" in it is pretty dumb. Specifically "mankind" they suggest using the word "humankind". So if everyone starts using this word eventually slang will shorten it to "mankind" which means the same exact thing anyway...

You would only need one set of coordinates. The destination coordinates. Any high level chess players would only need that information to dominate.

This article is disgusting regardless of 'truth'. We are to the point now where we call a political assassination "successful" and spread the assassins' story as if there is/was just cause...

What really is the point of the article anyway? Abe wasn't perfect so he deserves to be murdered? The assassin had a good point? Really?

Maybe we should start seeing articles about the OKC bombing next.

Craigslist is likely in the best position it has been in years... They rolled out charging for service/job listing posts a few years ago and I am sure they make a ton of money.

Lots of people use craigslist regardless of Facebook marketplace or whatever else..

It is possible I am incorrect then. I remember it always taking 5 - 10 minutes before any funds hit my account. I never actually counted the confirmations so it is very possible I am just wrong and they were doing 0 conf. At the same time I am surprised BitPay would have been structured this way and not experience a major attack...

Because I am pretty sure it isn't true. I am one of the few people who used bitcoin on steam during this time and I don't remember it ever being instant. I would like to see clarification to the top point because I don't think it is true...

In my opinion when he says "fraudulent" he is probably talking about how people would use it to avoid bans. Steam would track banned users that remake accounts by checking their CC. They would also verify the people by making sure the address on the CC was close or the same to the address on the account.

With Bitcoin you could avoid any tracking from remaking an account which leads to more 'bad actors' using Bitcoin. For reference you needed to spend something like $5 - $10 to enable trading on the platform. From their people would phish, scam, and break the TOS on the account.

Is that a rabbit hole you really want to jump down. Data can be biased and lead to incorrect conclusions. Best for you to not look at any statistics concerning race which leads to absolute false narratives.

I see.. What is being said is that vaccinated immunity is "less damaging" to acquire than natural immunity.

Every "booster" vaccination going into the arm of a low risk population is a vaccination that is being withheld from a vulnerable population in a less "privileged" country.

The WHO specifically recommended to hold off on boosters because developing nations still have not vaccinated their vulnerable populations yet.

How can it be inferior when 2 weeks after you recover from covid you cannot catch it again but 2 weeks after getting the vaccine you can catch covid?

I mean you probably could run a study of caffeinated vs un-caffeinated drivers. Or Modafinil vs Un-Modafinil drivers and I imagine the results would be: the ones with the drug perform better than the ones without.

Expanding on this: I am sure more fatal accidents occur late at night than during the day. Do we bar night driving because of the risk?

Bigger cars cause more fatal accidents than smaller cars. Bar bigger cars from the road?

This article (and argument) is the equivelant of saying "teenagers and senior citizens both cause more fatal accidents than any other age group. Obviously we need to ban them from the road because they are putting others at risk"

https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...