[ExI] chatbots and marketing: was RE: India and the periodic table

[William Flynn Wallace]

Why would you want a kit to build a bicycle when you can travel by
supersonic jet?   bill

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 7:59 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
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> >…tbh though, I've been considering what chatGPT/et al. are going to do
> with/to marketing... maximize profit at ideal customer acquisition cost…
> Mike
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> I have been kinda quiet lately because I have been studying up on how GPT
> systems work and now I understand why we can’t run these things on our
> phones or typical home computers, but if one is fortunate enough to be able
> to afford a big number of high-end processors, GPUs, and one is patient, it
> can be done.  If one has an application which does not require high speed
> answers simulating conversation for instance, the computing requirement is
> greatly reduced.  If one has an application where 5 words per minute is
> acceptable, then such things are easily within the range of the ordinary
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> If so, then we can imagine a GPT toolkit, where the user doesn’t need to
> be a coding expert.  Rather, the consumer would supply the chat-bot with
> training material, selected in accordance with that user’s personal biases
> and preconceived notion of truth, train a personal chat-bot on that, only.
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> I gave the example of the material in the fish bowl where I went to
> college, with the approximately 200 billion words of more or less similar
> world view.  But one wouldn’t really need all that, nor would the product
> of the fish bowl trained GPT be likely to produce an interesting result.
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> In any case… it is easy enough to see a GPT-toolkit coming, so that
> everyone can try training one’s own chatbot by choosing the training
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