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Feb 13, 2023·edited Mar 28, 2023Liked by Hung Lee

The 'race'- when will it end and how will we ever have a 'winner''? Same question but 20+ years ago: ''Who will win the internet browser race - Netscape or Altavista?" :)

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While the world is pissing all over it's shoes by the buzz of ChatGPT, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter whether ChatGPT or Google Bard will prevail as the most popular, most commonly used content AI. It's the equivalent of asking a guitar player whether Fender or Gibson makes the best guitars. For experienced guitar players, it's simply a matter of personal preference, feel, and most important the sound they're trying to create and how they shape their own musical voice. Which is what really matters. I mean, when you hear Jimi Hendrix play, you know who it is, same as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Pat Metheny, Joe Pass - when you hear them play, you know who they are. You don't need Spotify or Pandora tell you on their display who's playing. These artists are defined by their individual creativity through their sound and their musical voice. While there are plenty of other guitar players who attempt to duplicate their sound, most come close but don't quite cut the mustard. Which, at the end of the day, is the inherent flaw in both ChatGPT, Google Bard or any other technology AI-imposter text generator that might come along in the future.

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going to do a critical brainfood live on chatGPT - as a part 3, to end this mini series. Love to get you on the show Lee - let me know if you want to make your on screen debut

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No thanks. 4am my time is a bit too early. I can always enjoy the re-run on Facebook. Besides, I'm sure you have plenty well-informed experts other than me. Here's the deal, I'm sure there are/will be lots of recruiters out there who will happily embrace ChatGPT/Bard as a welcomed time-saver to all their email solicitations, content, boolean search strings, job description writing responsibilities and whatever else they think they can apply it to. God bless them all. I just think originality, creativity, authenticity and one's own personal voice has more power and impact despite the fact that it might require more time, blood, sweat and tears on the part of the writer.

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ChatGPT is for sure the front-runner right now, but it will be fascinating to see this year play out.

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lot of backers for Bing...and I am tempted to agree, MS can simply bundle it into MS Office suite and get 1 billion users overnight. Hope ChatGPT hangs around though, be cool to have a multi-polar GAI world, rather than just the Google vs MS battle or MS dominant world. Lets see

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Yeah, I hope so as well and I very much hope OpenAI keeps the Open-part and don't shut down or limit access to their APIs.

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Feb 12, 2023Liked by Hung Lee

Who will win Chatbot AI race.... Martyn Redstone 2.0 of course

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certainly a contender!

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Feb 12, 2023Liked by Hung Lee

For a totally different reason ChatGPT has caught the worlds attention in the same way the pandemic did be it for a different reason. Only difference the world pushed against the pandemic - while with ChatGPT the appetite to learn and understand its benefits is astounding to watch. Have to stop and appreciate the code of silence asked of those building this quietly behind computer screens. They must feel like they have just be re birthed. Quite remarkable to observe.

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It is profound isn't it Jennie?

I don't think anyone is in any doubt any more, the question is how shifting to what this means and how exactly it is going to change practice, behaviours, values. I think there is also a very strong case to be made that perhaps there is little we can do about it now that it is out in the wild - genie is out of the bottle and is now part of reality we operate in

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