Exactly! It's so infuriating to search for a song cover and instead of being able to discover indie musician covers or rare live recordings, I get the studio version + 2 results, then I get redirected to 'related' songs.
I’m not sure why you got downvoted. Apple is a trillion dollar company. They certainly have looked into this, and many of the leaks supported this theory.
An interesting long read about 2000s pop culture, and how modern day female stars like Taylor Swift/Beyonce have been able to avoid the tabloid sensationalism/vilification that older stars like Britney Spears/Janet Jackson endured.
Doesn't make sense to me - google/the internet already has more facts/jokes/interesting stuff than my friends could ever produce. It still can't replace my friends because my friends have agency and are invested in my life.
Are you saying there are engineers sitting behind their laptops who upvote the "bathroom destruction" trend in some kind of global dashboard? You sound very certain about the degree of control they have over recommendation systems.
We have proved time and time again that governments have propaganda and astroturfing teams deployed on all major social media, why is it so hard to believe that CCP through TikTok has a mechanism to promote some content over another?
I am no conspiracy theorist, but at some point we need to accept the countless proof we keep reading about tech used maliciously once your app reaches a significant mass of users, especially if those users live in a country you are in a bona-fide economic war with.
Some degree of skepticism is healthy, but propaganda thrives any time a skeptic dismisses valid concerns.
Make no mistake, they let everything sensational trend until it makes the news because it makes them look edgy to a younger audience and that makes them lots of money... Covering your tracks is easy when there's no algorithm/operational transparency.
Social media is the puts when it comes to moral bankruptcy... It is a casino based on popularity, and so many people are dumping money into it on a regular basis that it's really too late to do anything to stem the way it manipulates our world. Congressional action is far too late and futile to the maximum in encouraging any sort of ethics, they did nothing with all the damning evidence presented about Facebook, The only reason they'd ban TikTok is to satisfy the anti-competitive lobby of US competitors if you ask me.
TilTok is a corrupt platform nonetheless, and I really wouldn't be sad if it got banned, the basis of it has already infected everything else, including YouTube to the point of useless overload, so the entire ideal of going viral and getting paid on platforms is actually way past anything meaningful any more.
I’m not saying they specifically coded in a “bathroom destruction” function, but they coded a function which results in promoting destruction videos more than any platform before it.
The amount of brainrot content that tiktok pushes is staggering. The other video platforms don’t come close.
That is a great idea! I can't believe that the same functionality that seemed impossible a year ago (for which some star-studded startup raised $80m) is now achievable by a guy and his brother in 2 weeks. Godspeed!
A lot of these features aren't that much work to build. Plugins is Toolformer, you basically tell the model what to emit and then the rest is fairly straightforward plumbing of the sort many coders can do, probably GPT-4 can do a lot of it as well. What is a lot of work and what AI can't do is lining up the partners, QAing the results etc, so the humans are likely working mostly on that.
Also I think it's easy to under-estimate how obvious a lot of this stuff was in advance. They were training GPT-4 last year and the idea of giving it plugins would surely have occurred to them years ago. The enabler here is really the taming of it into chat form and the fine-tuning stuff, not really the specific feature itself.
Is it really that hard? I mean ChatGpt is doing the work (that is how I undestand it). Basically if ChatGpt want's to call an external API, it just gives a specific command and waits for the result, then just simply reads the texts and completes the propt. Sounds like a feature that you could prototype in a week of work.
Of course they fed the entire product roadmap into GPT-4.. jk.
So obviously it's been in the works for a few years now but didn't release to capture the market in a blast. Likely they have GPT-8 already in the making.
>Continued Altman, “We’ve made a soft promise to investors that, ‘Once we build a generally intelligent system, that basically we will ask it to figure out a way to make an investment return for you.'”
That's not 100% true. They're focused on now selling a product and developing an ecosystem. They have basically a non-existent settings interface. You can't even change the email tied to the account or drop having to be logged into Google if you signed up with your Google account.
I wish I had known how restrictive they are when I casually signed up last year.
I tried to contact their support over that latter aspect, their support doesn't respond at all. They don't have a GPT bot answering their support requests..
Google is so toast. Who needs search after GPT-4 + plugins? The position of search moved down from "the entry point of internet" to "a plugin for GPT".
We don't even know how powerful the GPT-4 image model is. This one might solve RPA leading to massive desktop automation takeup, maybe also have huge impact in robotics.
