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by pms 1188 days ago
However, is ChatGPT a solution to virtual assistant? I'm not sure, because virtual assistants work with huge databases of entities, e.g., songs or movies, and it's not really clear that ChatGPT can handle this. A couple of days ago I asked it whether it knows Dream of You by Camila Cabello, a song with hundreds of millions of plays, and it didn't... Furthermore, that database is constantly updated... It sounds like LLMs solve neither of these problems well, although they may be an improvement over current wave of virtual assistants.
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aiappreciator 1188 days ago
That's because you used ChatGPT. Rather than GPT-4. GPT-4 has more parameters, so can remember much more obscure facts.

I had GPT-4 analyze the ethics of some obscure japanese visual novel from the perspective of multiple characters in that story. It did so flawlessly.

ChatGPT would have started making up stuff in the second paragraph because it couldn't remember what actually happened.

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pms 1188 days ago
Have you provided the visual novel as a prompt or just asked about it? ChatGPT does seem to know more about books than songs, maybe because they are more often described in texts, while songs not, not sure.

I wished more parameters gave a generalizable solution, but research suggests that's not the case [1, 2, 3]. OpenAI won't tell you this, cause they have a product to sell.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08411 [2] http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03395 [3] http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04345

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infoseek12 1188 days ago
I think ChatGPT plugins may be what solves this problems. Does IMDB have an API?
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wernst 1188 days ago
Sites like IMDB feel like they might be in a pickle. What happens to their ad revenue if they expose their API and no one navigates to their site anymore?
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n3rv 1188 days ago
API access as a service here we come!
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pbronez 1188 days ago
Could be a good thing. Maybe this is the push the world needs to create a business model around providing useful information without surveillance capitalism smeared on top.
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flakeoil 1188 days ago
Well, isn't that what this plugin system is meant to solve? You can get up to date information into ChatGPT.
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