[haakonhr]

There are definitely interesting times ahead. What surprised me with ChatGPT is the impact of the interface. The quality of the responses are essential up to some threshold, but the chat interface arguably had an even bigger impact.

I also remember having the same questions in my last job (in logistics) where potential customers wanted to know how we use AI. This sometimes seemed more important than whether our results would enable them to cut costs. Fascinating.

[jatins]

I was hacking around with GPT-3 just a couple months before ChatGPT came out and had this feeling of "omg I found something that the world is largely sleeping on"

Then ChatGPT came out and now that's all anybody ever talks about.

[pcl]

Yeah, absolutely. It’s astounding that Google didn’t come up with a chat-based refinement interface to a search session after all these years, instead forcing us to keep on trying again with a slightly changed query string.

[coffeebeqn]

I think it must’ve been an accident. LLMs need a lot to context and the more you talk and narrow your requirements down the better its response gets (in theory). But it really was chatgpt that made it go mainstream. I remember playing with the earlier GPT playgrounds and I also thought neat but not for me

[nly]

Aren't they different use cases? I want generative AI to produce something for me. I want search to find something for me.