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Can AI and ChatGPT Replace Copywriters and SEO Specialists?
Hi Hacker News,

I'm Alexander, a web developer and SEO specialist with over 10 years of experience. Recently, the rapid advancements in AI and automation tools like ChatGPT have made me wonder about their potential impact on our field. Can AI truly replace copywriters and SEO specialists?

To explore this idea, I developed a plugin called AI Content Wizard. It automates content creation and optimization by generating unique articles, creating content plans, analyzing content, performing internal linking, and even adding watermarks to images. This tool has significantly streamlined my workflow and saved a lot of time.

However, I'm curious to hear the community's thoughts:

Do you think AI and tools like ChatGPT can fully replace human copywriters and SEO specialists?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using AI for content creation and optimization?
What has been your experience with AI in content management and SEO?
What features do you believe are essential for such tools?
Let's discuss how these technologies are evolving and what the future might hold for content creation and SEO.

If you're interested in learning more about AI Content Wizard, you can check it out here. I look forward to your insights and experiences!
Show HN: I built a web app that will make your date evening fun
Hello everyone,
I built a simple web application that lets you play mini-games to decide who chooses what for your dates. Currently, I offer 3 different mini-games, but I plan to add more simple mini-games in the future. I look forward to your feedback on the application.
I recall reading report of exactly this at least 25 years ago, with grainy images of soon-to-be-executed folks standing in the row on some field, blindfolded, hands behind the back. Families got receipt for the bullets. And just on the side stood ambulances ready to take whatever was good and sell it to whomever would pay enough.

I don't think they stopped, just got smarter about it, if done organized en masse the amount of money is insane for people who don't earn so in their entire lives. Nobody sane will brag how they got new kidney from shady chinese guys when this was well known.
That's a great question, and the thing that comes to mind to me most right now is the fiasco around the no mask mandate at kubecon 2022 in Valencia. Attendees with a following (mostly dev rela) shared their fears on twitter generating awareness, and the new stack had a full webinar about the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbrgYc8CwE

On a side note check out this study https://www.careerarc.com/blog/future-of-recruiting-study-in... that shows that:

"Not only will a poor candidate experience make someone not want to apply again, but it even has an impact on their purchasing habits. This is seen among 64% of job seekers. Job seekers who don’t feel like they are treated fairly won’t purchase from that company again. This means that companies will both shrink their talent pool and lose money at the same time. Even more so, when job seekers aren’t treated fairly, they are more likely to complain about the company online in review sites like Glassdoor.com. These negative reviews can deter other job seekers from applying for jobs or purchasing products or services from the company."
> Tesla - people dependent on the electrical grid are far easier to control than those dependent on gasoline.

Where do you think gasoline comes from exactly? I can rechange an electric car completely off grid with solar/wind. I'm still working on my off-grid oil drilling and refinery operation.
We actually do track such provenance now (https://pytorch.org/blog/understanding-gpu-memory-1/) - works pretty well I think :)
They are a problem because gcc automatically links to the latest version of glibc.

As to why they don't add an option to specify an older version? I don't know either and it is rather annoying to have to use docker images of older OSes to target older glibc versions. It's just one of many things that prevents linux from being as popular as windows for desktop users.
That was a decision that prioritized the bottom line over other things. But saying that Google is "focused" on the bottom line implies that there's a pattern of them putting the bottom line first, which is simply not true if you look at Google as a whole. Search specifically, maybe, but not Alphabet.
There's going to be a short and tight window for the non-dominant search engine companies out there to seize this opportunity and make their search results based on real things. AI search results have already shown to be hallucinating on basic queries.

When I look up something as basic as time zones in two different regions, I don't want AI to imagine something, I just want the results from the thousands of sites available out there to just be presented to me.
I guess I might give it a try, haven't used Google search in a long time though. It used to be great, now just seems to show keyword matches that have the most ads.
Sous Vide Cooking: How to Get Started
There is only one way that data can really be "anonymized": if the individual data points are aggregated and the original collected data is deleted. Short of that, anonymization is basically illusory.

The trouble is that we'd still have to take the word of the entity doing the data collection that they've done this properly, and it's clear that we can't take anyone's word for that.
Bob's Your Uncle: 2 Bob Fergusons withdraw from WA governor's race
You need to launch a “new” product to get promo. So you just wait until a team gets reorged, rebrand their work by pitching to some hapless VP, launch something half baked in time for I/O, get the promo, and move on to your next victim.
these cases are usually cases where you want to use a (hash) Set. If you're Ok changing everyone's indexing, the indexing didn't matter.
They'll be in good company: Arms Dealers and Drug Lords Are Scooping Up Property in Dubai -- New leaks of property records reveal shady characters hiding out in Dubai, a haven for fugitives

(Dubai is part of the UAE)

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/duba...
Broken Software
For a while, having a good keyboard, full web browser, and real multitasking were things that Android did and iOS didn't really. Seems those are at roughly parity now.

One nice thing that Android does now and I don't think iOS does is let you swipe up from the bottom to select text or images being displayed on the screen. It's useful for copy/pasting (even when the text is baked into an image) and for translating foreign text. It seems to use OCR, so sometimes you'll get weird errors like a 1 where an l should be, but it's overall useful.
I had their AI thing on for a few weeks and it was the most annoying thing. I want a quick google search and response, not waiting on a block of text to be written then the entire page of results shifting down.

And now I can't even use google images without their "highlight something in the image" thing getting in the way.
I think "yes" is the most likely answer here

animals have a lot more intelligence than they typically get attributed

Tool use, names, language, social structure and behavior, even drug use has been shown across many species
Am I the only one who explicitly does not want type 1 hyper visor on my desktop? Am I out dated?

I like workstation and virtualbox because they're controllable and minimally impactful when I'm not using them.

Installing hyper v (and historically even WSL - not sure if it's still the case but it was never sufficiently explicit) now makes my primary OS a guest, with potential impact on my gaming, multimedia, and other performance (and occasional flaky issues with drivers and whatnots).

Am I the only grouchy geezer here?:-)
How Generative AI Is Remaking UI/UX Design
Return to office mandates had senior employees jumping ship
That's quite the evisceration of a strawman that you've got there. He certainly won't be walking to Oz with Dorothy anytime soon.

My counterpoint:

- Most code reviews of my code don't find bugs.

- At least half of the bugs I write are caught during code review.

Both are true.
This is an amazing piece of work and the documentation is a great introduction to EPD.
legislations are always behind. you cant rely on government to fix everything constantly ontime. epecially with international things like internet technologies. im not saying ignore the bad stuff, but its only a small percentage ofnwhats relly out there. most of the world, and the vast majority of people, are good :)
> Democracy < dictatorship if you value technological and infrastructural progress over diversity, equity and inclusion.

Or not, depending on what examples you pick.

You might also want to include freedom and human rights in this picture somewhere.
On Jim Simons // "The Man Who Solved the Market"
Hooray, now we'll get blogspam in streaming text form
So do women have equal rights in the UAE or SA? Can they vote or drive cars?
Are they missing the bus on AI?

Hasn't Meta committed to becoming an AI leader and releasing their models for free? Users will need to run those models somewhere.
I think it's a trap of visual elegance. When you start thinking of models this way you miss the way a lot of models are actually written.

E.g. how do you represent an online fine-tuning process? I want to randomly switch between a reference impl and an approximation method, but when using the approx method I want to back-propagate so that it gets better over time.

full disclosure: I've written plenty of these little visualizers and also fallen for the trap of "everything should be a declarative graph."
> The shots here [..] almost all look like slow motion or slow panning shots.

I think this is arguably better than the alternative. With slow-mo generated videos, you can always speed them up in editing. It's much harder to take a fast-paced video and slow it down without terrible loss in quality.
See-through displays show up in movies so that the viewer can see the actors' faces. Not because see-through displays are useful.
This is a good point. It is possible that the owner of the website declaring cisgender to be a slur and the website declaring cisgender to be a slur are entirely unrelated
Indeed, GPS is when you think about it, possible in theory but practically impossible. So it must be magic!

PS I believe I found a little mistake in the article:
'...and because the GPS device also has a perfect clock...'
IBM supercomputers also look pretty neat
> why not just take the bus? But walking is only a few miles, why not just walk? Don't buy a house because it's an inefficient waste of space, resources, and energy. Live in a studio apartment under 300sq ft, enough for a bed and a desk. Buying food seems unnecessary when I can have planters and some chickens out back.

That sounds like a wonderful life; I wish you the best of luck in pursuing it, and must admit I feel a bit jealous.
In docker-compose it's just "- ports", I guess it's always 0.0.0.0, unless bound to something else (like 127.0.0.1). You can restrict it to the Tailnet IP, but then you have to hardcode the Tailscale 100.x.x.x IP address (not flexible).
Wonder how much tracking shit got crammed in recently
The article stated that flights have been forcibly decreased by 10% in NYC area as a result of staffing shortages.
Meh. AI is like having a super senior developer on your team to ask questions of. They don’t always give the correct answer.
> Here is a simple KB that describes what to do: http://kb.vmware.com/s/article/97817

Another broken link...
Can you give some examples that turned out really well? The ones I tried are exactly what comes out when I prompt the ‘bare’ gpt4 or gpt4o with the same prompt that I give your gpt.

Edit; scratch that; with 4o and the same prompt I give your gpt (for instance the example ‘Generate a UI concept for a fitness app.’), vanilla 4o does a vastly better job and continues to do so far even after some more prompting.
Gemini Ultra is 1.0 with 8k window. This is 1.5 with 1m window. Your feeling is based on incorrect assumption.
See so mamy products like this.

If the product genuinely worked, it would make a natural candidate to upstream into the operating system. Better to wait for the feature to arrive there. Than to risk scams and bugs meanwhile.
> I’d rather they make Firefox subscription based.

Software subscriptions are a hard "no" for me. Even if I loved literally everything else about Firefox, if they did this I'd have to stop using it.
Related albeit tiny:

Pen Plotter Programming: The Basics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191811 - Jan 2018 (1 comment)
They can drive cars, and they have the same right not to vote as men in those countries (which aren't democracies so there's no voting).
> get the time the way people had been since the dawn of civilization.

I nearly applauded, what a great way to end the article!
Gee, if only they had thought of this rather obvious point and addressed it in the article.
When I go to aldis I always grab a fruit box. Keeps my food bill smaller to because I can only carry so much.
Anyone who uses both products regularly will tell you that Gemini Advanced is far behind GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus.

Pretending that they have a model internally that's on par but they're not releasing it is a very "my girlfriend goes to another school" move and makes no sense if they're a business that's actually trying to compete.
Is there a way to amortize that cost over several queries, i.e. "pre-bake" a document into a context persisted in some form to allow cheaper follow-up queries about it?
its 2024 and AI is taking over and yet, to signup for this, it take way more clicks and Google form entry(1)

Sigh. I still have hopes for VEO though
That's a great feature for identifying the source of an image, too. Particularly, if someone on Twitter is subtweeting someone with a screenshot, you can get to the original tweet in three taps. I also used it the other day to select and copy all the text from a PDF where text selection had been disabled. Voice recognition and dictation also seems to be years ahead of what you get on iOS, at least with my voice and English.
I didn't get the reference, but thanks for the heads-up.
Hey, author/founder here, thanks for providing that answer, all correct there :) . I would also add that KraftCloud unikernels are built using Unikraft, and that its modularity allow us to tailor/specialize those images to obtain great perf.

Finally, we also had to design and implement a controller from scratch -- nothing out there provided the millisecond semantics and scalability we needed (plus we also did tweaks to network interface creation and a few other things to get the end to end experience to be fast).
marketing is marketing. look how they marketed cigarettes , cars, ll kinds of things that now people feel are perhaps not so good. its part and parcel of the world that also does so much good. personally, id market it differently, but this is why im no CEO =).

if we help eachother understand these things andnhownto cope, all will be fine in the end. we will hit some bumps, and yes, there will be discomfort but thats ok. thats all part of life. life is not about being happy and comfortable allnthe time no matter how much we would want that.

some people even want paid AI girlfriends. who are you to tell them they are not allowed to have it?
I don't think it's the lack of tracking. It's that almost all of those "3 a day" violations are only technically violations. If you try to actually charge someone in front of a jury, they're going to return something along the lines of "not guilty because the prosecutor is an idiot".

That's assuming that the judge doesn't find a way to throw it out long before it ever sees a jury. Courts don't like wasting their time on stupid stuff.
A less buggy interface for some is unintuitive or too generic for others.
I see the endpoint returns "Not Implemented" when trying to make a video :<

Imagen 3 is awesome though, generates nice logos :D
With so much recent focus by OpenAI/Google on AI's visual capabilities, does anyone know when we might see an OCR product as good as Whisper for voice transcription? (Or has that already happened?) I had to convert some PDFs and MP3s to text recently and was struck by the vast difference in output quality. Whisper's transcription was near-flawless, all the OCR softwares I tried struggled with formatting, missed words, and made many errors.
That per exchange context cost is what really puts me off using cloud LLM for anything serious. I know batching and everything is needed in the data center, and important for keeping around KVQ cache, you basically need to fully take over machine to get an interactive session to get the context costs to scale with sequence length. So it's useful, but more in the case of a local LLaMA type situation if you want a conversation.
1. Not an AI specific comment series, it applies generally

2. Comments like yours are against the guidelines of HN

3. You don't know what I do and are incorrect in your assessment of my work and experience (another common HN mishap)

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(re: #2/3) Please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks. I love opensource drama.
Following this channel for a couple of years. Great RC content, interesting look on design, technology and science.
its the same fundamental effect
I feel you, people who liked the word "delve" will have to stop using it.
This other video seems to have been done live: https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/179046325982242023...
Try asking here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/
Anyone can cut costs.

It takes a pioneer to increase revenue.
True and cca 8 years ago it was not all doom and gloom either in Iran, I had quite a few anti-regime talks with random folks who just came to me as visible outsider, not sure about now.

But his point still stands, things can and do go to shit, anywhere. 90s were a magical period when world consistently fell even from major news like moving towards bright future. 9/11 changed that for good and common americans let that fear-based manipulation (and 2 absolutely meaningless wars as we see now) happen and gradually roll over entire world, that's also one of 'super powers' of being a superpower.
I worked at a place where we wrote the test before the code that implemented the functionality. We wanted to see the test fail, so that we knew it actually tested what we thought it did. Then we wrote the code that would make it pass, and verified that the test now passed.
im not familiar with this industry but

how far are we from magazine quality look and feel using eInk?

like there is a scene from an old 80s sci-fi movie dude whips out a game magazine and the screenshot of games are fully animated videos...

ive been waiting 30 years now for this tech
well you should tell bram then :p

but also while generally "in all things i defer to horace" (ok not really) so maybe i'm not looking closely enough (and missed it) but the bottom of that stack shows (roughly) the autograd dispatch key and not the python call site (or some such). and maybe it's a pedantic difference (depends on what bram wants) but i wanted provenance back to the TS op so that i could then do static memory allocation things with that representation (now i've probably fully de-anonymized myself...) and for that use-case, even what you have now, isn't enough (you can't get a total sum for how much each TS op or whatever allocates and when the corresponding free happens).
Although that one was posted a bit later, it seems like the URL is more canonical, so I've merged the comments thither.

Sorry, synthwave - it's on our list to do better thread merging so that multiple submitters can share in karma.
Boeing's hitman could not be reached for comment.
Could also be the doing of google. if Veo screws up , the weight falls on Alphabet stock. While open AI is not public and doesn't have to worry about anything . Like even if open AI faked some of their AI videos(not saying they did), it wouldn't affect them the way it would affect Veo--> Google-->Alphabet

being cautious often puts a dent in innovation
I've seen a lexer/parser scheme that encodes the lexer token type along with the token file location information into a u64 integer, something like

struct Token {
token_type: u8,
type_info: u8,
token_start: u32, // offset into the source file.
token_len: u16
}

It's blazing fast. The lexer/parser can process millions of lines per second. The textual information is included, and the location information is included.
They don't threaten you per say but really they absolutely hamstring the one ability that matters if your incentive is to hold the seat of power: the ability to organize the population and form a new government or at the very least claw back some power that has been granted to certain individuals and groups. 1776 would be impossible today.
I think that's a bit like asking why would someone need a 1gb Gmail when 50mb yahoo account is clearly enough.

It means you can dump context without thinking about it twice and without needing to hack some solutions to deal with context overflow etc.

And given that most use cases most likely deal with text and not multimodal the advantage seems pretty clear imo.
Or PicoCSS https://github.com/picocss/pico
Author here, we did this, first by continuing the research alongside the creation of the Unikraft LF OSS project -- the result of which was the Eurosys 2021 best paper award (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3447786.3456248).

Commercially, we leverage Unikraft on kraft.cloud to provide a cloud platform with millisecond semantics.
It omits that the prisoners are deceased and uses the term "vanish" which implies it's not known where the organs have gone.

"Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck" could easily be "Deceased prisoners' organs taken by University of Alabama against families wishes" but that's not going to get the clicks.
I believe we need to wait for e-ink patents to expire.
I have a paid account and can do voice to voice on the iOS app as of last night.
It’s even stupider because the Royal Military College are always harping on about moral courage and doing the right thing.
That's an odd reference to DEI. I'd say the negative consequences of authoritarian regimes is that they suppress freedom, and therefore art and technological innovation.

China is authoritarian, but also has a huge political system, somewhat strong institutions. That can't be said of many authoritarian regimes, which tend to be more fragile. It takes a really long time to build civil institutions. For example, Russia has the money and an authoritarian regime, but repeatedly fails to innovate, and we can't predict what will happen when Putin leaves.
don't feel left out, we're all on the wait lists
Posted further down the thread - I have a paid account and can do voice to voice on the iOS app as of last night.
Oooh! That explains why I haven't been able to disable that stuff from the omnibar. I hate the omnibar -- I just want text entered there to be interpreted as a URL and nothing else -- but at some point, I wasn't able to configure it to be that anymore.

If this is why, you've just made Firefox better for me! Thank you!
The only foolproof way is to have some proprietary dataset that OpenAI will never be able to get by themselves or from anyone else. That or be in a very small niche they will never bother to compete in because it’s not worth their time
That's really the least problematic aspect of those societies from any rational point of view (and sort of obsolete now as other comment mentions)
Yeah, we're long past "Technology is morally neutral"
If 2% of people who expressly indicated a preference for not buying self-driving went ahead and bought self-driving after a demo, it indicates to me that the number in the general population is greater than 2%.

Sounds like a big market to me.