Reading about #ChatGPT plug-ins and wondering why this is framed as plug-ins for #ChatGPT (giving it "capabilities") rather than #ChatGPT as a plug-in to provide a conversational front-end to other services.
Nevermind, I know why: This is #OpenAI yet again trying to sell their text synthesis machine as "an AI".
Shiwali Mohan | शिवाली मोहन
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Very interesting framing. The 'plugins' are not the 'eyes and ears' of the language model but actually the mind!
The Expedia plugin for example uses a scheduling algorithm + a database of flight information to find the right flight for the user. This plugin is what is doing the actual 'reasoning'...
Christian Muise
in reply to Shiwali Mohan | शिवाली मोहन • • •Shiwali Mohan | शिवाली मोहन
in reply to Christian Muise • • •shhhh.... don't let people onto the secret that #AI algorithms have been running our lives all along.
Maps - #AI
Search - #AI
Recommendation - #AI
Mars rover - #AI
Airplane autopilot - #AI
😅
Dawn Ahukanna
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •my interpretation of the word “plug-in“ in association with ChatGPT or any LLM is we, the human, public, free, non-AI Labour provides “a piece of software that enhances the functionality of Chat-GPT” that they make money by:
1. giving them a cut of what your plug-in(s) may make
and
2. the further, extended utility of their exclusive platform.
Let the enshittification process begin - pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/pot… !
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