[mistymountains]

Or, just maybe, AGI is a mirage with the bulk of its current utility as a marketing tool for much more realistic, if ultimately mundane, applications. OpenAI, of course, knows this.

[sdwr]

Whether it's real or illusory, I feel like they turned the bitrate down significantly since launch. I'm not getting as many smart electrons per question as I used to.

[rymiel]

This is measurably true. They claim they don't know why because "they haven't changed anything" but it is true at the very least

[persolb]

I think at least some of this is expectation setting. I'd been saving my prompts from the beginning. In some cases I saved the results.

On the API: My prompts are getting 'harder' and expecting more. My old prompts still work just fine still.

On the website: Copy pasting the same old prompts still work... but the 'flavor' of the text that pops out definitely feels worse.

I haven't seen any actual data showing a degredation.

[NemoNobody]

AGI will very likely develop atop the mundane applications that AI will be utilized for at the onset - if it ever develops.

Regardless, mirage or not - as a mundane tool with realistic application this is still revolutionary

[whoIsYou]

maybe they need some sort of profit center to keep themselves funded to reach their goals

[gfodor]

Why are so many HN commenters like this

[alexsereno]

Pessimism is more infective than optimism. It’s also easier to be a naysayer, since most new ventures do failed you can point and say you were right regardless of merit.

[bsdpufferfish]

skeptical about AGI?

[gfodor]

no, presuming that other people working on things are both cynical and deceptive; it's projection, imo.