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

[William Flynn Wallace]

Why couldn't the big AIs just upload the specialty ones?  Or create them
itself?   bill w

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 7:54 AM 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
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] chatbots and marketing: was RE: India and the
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> Good answer!  Could you create your own bot that researches the area you
> are interested in that is much better than what the gpt can do?  If so, all
> literature research will be done by your bot, saving you oodles of time.
> Then you can market it to other researchers in your area who don't want to
> take the time to create their own bot.  Eh?  Buttloads of money? Surely
> companies will spring up creating specialty bots for scientists.  Problems
> - getting irrelevant results, and failing to get relevant ones.  Billw
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> Ja that is exactly where I am going with your bicycle/jet analogy.  A jet
> can only get you approximately where you need to go.  The detail work is
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> I am told ChatGPT is trained on about a trillion words (or tokens.)  OK
> how much is that?  If you start doing some BOTECs, you find out it isn’t
> that much.  The fish bowl contains somewhere around 200 billion words, give
> or take a factor of 2, but that library where it is housed contained
> perhaps 2 trillion words back in the olden days, and that library was
> grossly insufficient for so many areas of research even then.  It was
> filled with material that ChatGPT doesn’t know much about.  ChatGPT knows
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> So what if… we could create specialty GPTs for specialty tasks, such as
> specific genealogy for instance.  History of Jackson Mississippi, in
> obsessive detail for instance, where it knows every street, every person
> who lived on that street and when they lived there, every graduate from
> that Brandon High School, every store along the local merchant row, and so
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> ChatGPT would fly us to the approximate area, then more specific, and
> possibly individually-owned GPTs would navigate the neighborhoods.
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