{"id":38365,"date":"2023-02-02T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38365"},"modified":"2023-02-02T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:04:09","slug":"chatgpt-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/chatgpt-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt-plus\/\">OpenAI<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34614796\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt-plus\/\"><p>The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20\/month, and subscribers will receive a number of benefits:<\/p><ul><li>General access to ChatGPT, even during peak times<\/li><li>Faster response times<\/li><li>Priority access to new features and improvements<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lajili.com\/posts\/post-2\/\">Johan Lajili<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34627780\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lajili.com\/posts\/post-2\/\"><p>Whereas you might think &ldquo;well, if it&rsquo;s not broken don&rsquo;t fix it&rdquo;, I believe the web as a way to access information is getting worse by the day. Content generated with GPT-3 is going to start to show up for every long tail search under the sun, whereas regular content is going to get even heavier with SEO keyword to survive. The web is going to get worse and worse, and the only way to get good information is with a system that can extract the signal from the noise, a.k.a ChatGPT.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aisnakeoil.substack.com\/p\/chatgpt-is-a-bullshit-generator-but\">Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34618376\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/aisnakeoil.substack.com\/p\/chatgpt-is-a-bullshit-generator-but\"><p>The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_Bullshit\">intended to persuade without regard for the truth<\/a>. By this measure, OpenAI&rsquo;s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/fediscience.org\/@ct_bergstrom\/109465410043497711\">plausible<\/a> text, not true statements. ChatGPT is shockingly good at sounding convincing on any conceivable topic. But OpenAI is <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt\/\">clear<\/a> that there is no source of truth during training. That means that using ChatGPT in its current form would be a bad idea for applications like education or answering health questions. Even though the bot often gives excellent answers, sometimes it fails badly. And it&rsquo;s always convincing, so it&rsquo;s hard to tell the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, there are three kinds of tasks for which ChatGPT and other LLMs can be extremely useful, despite their inability to discern truth in general:<\/p><ol><li><p>Tasks where it&rsquo;s easy for the user to check if the bot&rsquo;s answer is correct, such as debugging help.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Tasks where truth is irrelevant, such as writing fiction.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Tasks for which there does in fact exist a subset of the training data that acts as a source of truth, such as language translation.<\/p><\/li><\/ol><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/25\/chatgpt-vs-google\/\">ChatGPT vs. Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/05\/chatgpt\/\">ChatGPT<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI (Hacker News): The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20\/month, and subscribers will receive a number of benefits:General access to ChatGPT, even during peak timesFaster response timesPriority access to new features and improvements Johan Lajili (via Hacker News): Whereas you might think &ldquo;well, if it&rsquo;s not broken don&rsquo;t fix it&rdquo;, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-02-02T22:04:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"8c692057-2db3-4dbd-a1ac-2456ad7fd36a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-02-02T22:04:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjGkgVy2zTb2hrCRWrX_Tag","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,101,2317,96],"class_list":["post-38365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-chatgpt","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38366,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365\/revisions\/38366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}