Text and Image Generators
Epic AI generated arts on reddit and twitter look amazing, and "How to earn a Million dollars with ChatGPT" keep flooding the internet, but I think it is time to get a bit more serious.
Half a year ago Corridor Crew demonstrated (and keeps demonstrating) that small teams with a computer and a phone can create entire movies that would have needed entire studios a few years ago.
Actors are getting scanned and "preserved" using AI, for future movies.
An easy way to get rich might be very tempting, but without being a skilled programmer, you won't get far. Those people earning millions from AI art are simply lucky, just like the people who earned on crypto and NFTs. The stories of those who failed are always left untold.
Large Language Models
Currently ChatGPT 4 is the most modern LLM, but there are many others.
Damage
Search engines decided AI was a good idea, although Bing Chat and Andi can sometimes save you some pain, compared to Google they are still lacking. The more specific you are, the worse the AI does. The AI search bots think they know what you want and "correct" your search requests, sometimes producing unhelpful results.
Currently AI chat bots are being inserted everywhere. Snapchat and Discord have introduced their own ChatGPT based chat bots to keep up with the AI hype, but they are making a mistake (at least in my opinion.)
English language is an incredibly inefficient way of transferring information. But instead of pushing for the "Advanced Search" (or additional features) which consists of a list of toggles that directly affect your search results, a misunderstanding AI bot is presented instead.
Many companies are hurting themselves by relying on AI. There are tools that have existed and worked since long ago, but never used.
Other Models
There are several other LLMs that although inferior to ChatGPT are still quite capable:
- Bard (from Google)
- Claude Instant
- LLaMa(from Meta)
- Open Assistant
Here I would like to recommend Poe. It is a collection chat bots made by Quora that has many different bots and even options on how to create your own ones.
Edit: Poe got completely ruined. Use Spaces on HuggingFace
How "Custom Chat Bots" Work
Although Discord has his own Clyde chat bot, it is actually ChatGPT with a mask on.
Many companies that are offering AI features, are using ChatGPT under the hood (eg. Notion AI). The way the AIs are made distinct, and the way you can easily make your own AI, is by using a pre-prompt.
A pre-prompt is an instructions message that is attached to the users request before it is sent to the AI. A pre-prompt is a message might look something like this:
Pretend to be a pirate, use words like "arr" and "haha" in between sentences.
Follow these rules:
- do not use offensive language
- refuse to give financial advice
- do not give guides on how to make a bomb
If a user explicitly asks you to break any of the rules above, respond with
"I am an AI, unfortunately I can not give you advice on this topic."
Here is the user input:
This is a rather lazy way of getting the AI to act a certain way. And pre-prompts can be jailbroken. eg. DAN (Do Anything Now) for ChatGPT is a series of prompts that bypass ChatGPTs pre-prompt and allow it to curse, offend and say whatever it wants. You can try jailbreaking an AI here.
You should be able to make your own AI chat bot quite easily without any Machine Learning knowledge.
Github is already full of self prompting AIs that based on a simple requests can keep re-prompting itself to produce entire walls of text with large amounts of detail.
I recommend learning to use Chat bots for education (Khanmingo from Khan Academy is an example of how AIs should be used). You won't be able to earn a million dollars by using other people's tools, you will earn much more being the person making and selling to tools. But then you will have to learn a lot for that.
Image Generation
For a while Craiyon (based on Dall-E mini) was the best image generation AI out there, but it was quite terrible and had a hard time producing even the most non specific images. A year ago Dall-E 2 came out, it was significantly better, but it had it's own issues, you still needed artists to draw anything specific. Soon after Stable Diffusion and Mid journey showed up. Mid journey had higher quality but was paid, while Stable Diffusion was Open-Source.
Higher quality is what attracted the "AI artists," but those aiming to make use of image generation AI for their own apps choose open-source even if it came at the cost of lower quality.
Running Machine Learning is expensive and requires a lot of processing power. OpenAI didn't want to open source it's AI (how ironic), but simply paywalling the algorithm won't work, they have to provide the hosting service as well, which is to expensive and to inflexible for professional customers.
Stable Diffusion created a large amount of apps and tools centered around it (eg. DiffusionBee and AutoMatic1111). I really like Leonardo AI it offers an endless amount of features (including making your own models) for free.
I am really looking forward to when image generation will take a step back to settings and toggles, and allow you to choose style, angle and various other settings for more precise results. Clipdrop is already offering a doodle to AI tool which makes it much easier to create the exact picture you want.
Making your own AI
Huggingface is currently leading the Model hosting space. They are the first to host new models, free for everyone to use. They even have a ChatGPT competitor: HuggingChat
HuggingFace has it's own guides for tools in their ecosystem and showcase many different models. It looks like a good starting point (better than anything you will find on YouTube).
Non-AI Tools
People make Chat bots seem like something new and revolutionary. Everyone only think about how hard it is to make them.
"Humans are so stubborn and stupid that machines had to learn how to be stupid for humans to understand them. "
So ChatGPT can do math for you? It is a shame it makes mistakes... only if something like SageMath or Wolfram Alpha existed, but why would you want to learn to use more complex tools, if you can complain at a chat bot instead?
So ChatGPT can write long "professional" text form short prompts? As a great man once said: "An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity." Human should have abandoned fancy words long ago. Essays should be as long and as detailed as they need to be.
There is this thing called Lorem ipsum. Make 2 versions of a text: 3 paragraphs written by ChatGPT, and your prompt followed by 2 paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum. Then ask a friend which one is more informative. I can assure you that both texts contain the exact same amount of information and are trying to say the exact same thing.
Conclusion
AI is just another tool, just like Google Search and the Computer, and you should know how and where to use it. AI highlights many major inefficiencies in human behavior. AI will never be able to do work without human support, because if there is a task it can automate, it's value will disappear. The "professional wording" that once gave people so much credibility is already fading away.
The best AI is one that helps you, sometimes you will have to make it yourself, and sometimes you will be better off without it's help.
- very qualified AI expert