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📣 smithcoin

Bet on the Success of OpenAI/ChatGPT


A friend of mine and I were debating the likely "disruptions" that ChatGPT will have in the coming years and how it will alter various industries.

The timeline he suggested was 2 years. The questions I have are this:

- What do you think is a reasonable litmus-test for measuring this? (e.g number of employed workers in AI)

- He was willing to and I quote "bet my career" on the outcome of this. I have no need for his career. In the spirit of the bet what would you think is a prize that is worthy of this? (e.g something tongue in cheek like dinner at an AI powered White Castle[0])

I will be posting the bet on Longbets.org. I have attempted to leave my position/bias out of this post in relation to the bet.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/white-castle-flippy-2-100-locations-205023731.html


  👤 dbieber Accepted Answer ✓
> e.g something tongue in cheek like dinner at an AI powered White Castle

How about robot assembled salad from Sweetgreen [1]? I'd suggest autonomous pizza but Zume is refocusing [2]. Perhaps all topped with basil never touch by human hands [3]?

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/25/salad-chain-sweetgreen-buy... [2] https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technology/zume-shu... [3] https://ironox.com/


👤 f0e4c2f7
Best metric I can think of is Revenue on the ChatGpt api. Not sure if that will be public though. Maybe some vague public number? Could bet on over or under $50M/yr, $1B/yr?

Prize could be an A100 or whatever replaces it in 2 years.

Also if your friend is willing to "bet their career on it" there is actually a place where they can literally do that, by applying to OpenAI.


👤 jerrygenser
It's very difficult to measure hard numbers but a general framework would be ROI.

How much has been invested in hunan-years worked and CO2 emissions training the models vs. how much value is actually created from the resulting products and services.

Any net positive I would consider success.


👤 ddmma
Too bad we cannot embrace the humanity outcomes due to ancient unsolved legacies such as war and poverty.

This gives more hope and boost on further development.