I’m starting to use ChatGPT as a replacement for Google Search which literally does not work for me anymore. So strange watching something that was once so vital go into total eclipse. Very sad!

Same, except I'm using Perplexity AI. 

It's been really helpful, but at the same time it's made me somewhat skeptical of the maximalist claims about AI. It's a great improvement on the certain internet tools I have relied on for most of my adult life. But I'm not yet seeing it's value as some all-encompassing replacement for things I think benefit from a human touch.

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a year of using it or a year of seeing it expand its capabilities

good to do both, the benchmarks are gamed for announcement.

and the top three corporate services are in modal collapse, disruption arrives from the other teams assembling whichever insights from research papers.

have you checked out https://huggingface.co/papers?

most of it isn't truly commercial in any sense, but functionally lags by 6 months at most.

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these still have a lot of interventions by their creators, so the models are okay, but they haven't quite picked up transferable heuristics.

metaphorically, an acolyte will eventually force a more experienced figure to say "here, you're doing this wrong, watch me and I'll let you know if you fail, then repeat so I know it's not a fluke"

but that's kind of a mouthful and everyone wants the statistics to scale until that deliberate approach is moot.

What do you think of "Claude plays Pokemon" as a more objective ongoing assessment of where the models are at?

Haven’t seen this yet! I will check it out