What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?

• azurechatgpt

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  Discontinued 🤖 Azure ChatGPT: Private & secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use 💼

  

It's also really excellent at a bunch of other things.

For example I am currently doing self-directed study in maths. It turns out chatgpt is very good at explaining lots of things if you prompt correctly. You need to check things yourself and be on the lookout for plausible but wrong explanations, but it's like having a patient pure maths friend to work on things with - your friend won't get everything right either after all.

Something with real commercial potential is what microsoft released (I think today) [1] which is a sort of wizard thing that accellerates various azure gpt-powered standard deployments that do things like set up private ephemeral instances that connect to your enterprise data sources behind your firewall. This has enormous potential given how difficult it is in most large enterprises to actually join data sources together, find basic information etc. Think of an automated helpdesk that can draw on all of the stuff in all of the various disjointed systems in most big companies. That has the potential to be quite transformative to the workplace for a lot of people.

In general I think this bar of "transforming humanity" is just arbitrary and way too high for any technology. You could look at the map on your phone and say "that's all very well but will it transform humanity?" well no. It won't make toast either, but it's quite useful sometimes. Just as overinflated expectations and hype are unhelpful I think it's easy to be cynical and miss important tech developments just because we impose arbitrary standards on them that other technologies didn't have to meet on their way to adoption.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt

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