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I arrived at a similar template by continually asking "what else would be helpful to know about me?"

I do find it to be more helpful than not, but naturally a lot of the things I ask about are not all that unique to me after all. The personality stuff tends to be most useful.


I've found similar! It's been most useful for me in help with making personal decisions and things like that


I would love a "maybe" button for apps like this. Apartment List is the only one I've seen with this option, and it's useful for all the reasons you've described. Glad to know I'm not the only one with this frustration.


I feel like that’s more of a ukulele question than a music theory question, but I do wonder if it gets it wrong for the same reason diffusion models struggle with hands.

Music theory is a great topic to test though, since GPT-4 struggles a little with it.


Demonstrating with 3.5 is kind of meaningless. GPT-4 correctly responded, "Using unsafe code has nothing to do with your age. It's a feature of the Rust programming language that is available to all developers, regardless of age."


It's the version most people use, so of course it's not "meaningless".


Notice how you never hear anyone saying that GPT-4 is better since the launch. You'd expect to hear something like that as people gain more experience with prompting it.

I've certainly noticed that the quality of responses has gone down, and I have to repeat myself more often as it doesn't always remember all my instructions.

For an example of something it can no longer do, I used to show it off by having it explain something using words that each start with the next letter of the alphabet, then I'd add "now make it rhyme" after it succeeded. If you try that now (even with the 0314 model), it'll fail at the task.


> Notice how you never hear anyone saying that GPT-4 is better since the launch. You'd expect to hear something like that as people gain more experience with prompting it.

I'd expect the opposite. The first time you use ChatGPT (or GPT-4), you're in awe of what it can do, and more willing to overlook failures. As you use it, it becomes more mundane, and the instances where it messes up become more obvious.


I've noticed the same thing. People also like to complain the quality of Google Search has gone down for much of the same reason: if you first do a Google search that returned a good result and then repeat it, you are going to notice the absence. But if you first do a Google search that didn't return the thing you expect you might think such a thing just doesn't exist on the Internet. Ergo, quality decrease is simply more noticeable than quality increase.


For Google Search, the sad part, is that the search algorithm hasn't gotten worse. But the web itself has. There is so much more spam, with actual human generated content being siloed more and more in walled gardens, that it starts to become a major issue for Google.


Even if Google's algorithm hasn't gotten worse, (which is still in question) Google Search the product has. The advertising dark patterns continue their inexorable creep.


I’m not sure about this. It’s possible, but if google search hasn’t gotten worse, then the quality of competitor search has improved. I never imagined myself using Bing unironically, but I have consistently better results from Bing than google nowadays - which is inconvenient because I’m otherwise very plugged into the broader google ecosystem.


I don't know man, it used to give me results where my query would appear in the text. this is not happening anymore. even if I use quotes around a term it will just be ignored. I feel like my searches are too specific, it might have gotten better for the average person, but worse for people looking for some more special information.


I've been looking for a invite for months — Twitter's new leadership doesn't align with my values and I feel uneasy participating there. My email is in my profile if anyone can spare an invite.


You could call it something like the hostility spiral or value extraction spiral, but those terms don't really capture the experience of being a user on these platforms. Save them for polite company, I guess.


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