Technology

The novelty has worn off. I jumped on board and tried out every bot when they were first released: Bard, Bind, Snapchat, GPT—I've given them all a go.

It was a fun experience, asking them to write poems or delve into the mysteries of consciousness, as I got to know their individual personalities. But now, I mainly use them for searching niche topics or checking grammar, maybe the occasional writing.

In fact, this very comment was reformated in Bard for instance. Though, since Google integrated their LLM into search (via Labs), I use them even less.

Tried it a few times with poor results, it will eventually get better I guess.

when Italy banned ChatGPT due to privacy concerns, I tried Bing that was still working and it’s just loads and loads better due to its access to the internet. when it got finally unblocked again, it felt like speaking to a past image of someone, rather than something alive and actual like Bing.

It was in the major TV news cycle for weeks but now it's back to normal levels I'd say. Curious onlookers without a real need have moved on.

On that, what would people recommend for a locally hosted (I have a graphics card) chatgpt-like LLM that is open source and doesn't require a lot of other things to install.

(Just one CMD line installation! That is, if you have pip, pip3, python, pytorch, CUDA, conda, Jupiter note books, Microsoft visual studio, C++, a Linux partition, and docker. Other than that, it is just one line installation!)

I stopped using it when they turned paid for something like $25 CAD per month.

Then they released a "free" version with a waitlist, which always seemed full.

Have they changed it back since? I just kinda stopped caring when I couldn't access it anymore when I needed to. And $25 CAD is crazy!

I still use it daily. I made a decent Set of prompts and it pretty much does all of my daily annoying writing Tasks at work. This saves me a lot of time and i can Focus on more exciting projects. 10% isnt even that much after everyone tried it out and Played around with it. I think as a tool it just isnt useful for everyone, but for my Job it defenitely is.

It's not a craze. ChatGPT is going to change 80% of the jobs on the planet, and most people don't even know what it is.

I still use it since I find it pretty useful. If I’ve got something I want to search for and I don’t know quite how to ask it, I’ll describe what I’m trying to learn about on ChatGPT. From there, it can tell me what I need to know, or at least give me enough of the relevant terminology to make it much easier for me to google it.