Today we are adding an important new capability to Poe: multi-bot chat. This feature lets you easily chat with multiple models in a single thread. (1/n) This functionality includes two key components:

1. Context-aware recommendations with bots to compare answers to your query on
2. The ability to call any bot on Poe into your chat simply by @-mentioning it (2/n)

Today we are launching creator monetization for Poe! This program lets any bot creator on Poe generate revenue. This is a major step forward for the platform and is the first program of its kind, so we are very excited to see what it lets everyone create. (thread) Generating revenue is important for bot creators for two reasons: First, creating and marketing a great bot can require real work, and we want creators to be able to afford to make this investment, and be rewarded for it.

Introducing the Poe API v2! This uniquely lets any bot on Poe query any other bot for free and use the output as input. Developers do not have to pay for this; instead the queries are covered under the *user's* normal message allocation on Poe. This is very important because free products based on LLM can create huge costs for the developers if they go viral. Poe's recommendation system accelerates distribution to our millions of users so the problem can get even worse.

Economists seem to consistently be the most dismissive of AI existential risk concerns, out of all groups of people who think seriously about the future. Why is this and what can we learn from it?

https://twitter.com/DAcemogluMIT/status/1659593970580701190

More examples: here's Tyler Cowen

https://twitter.com/liron/status/1658331927437512704

Today we are officially launching the Poe API to all developers. Details in thread below! As we mentioned in our initial launch of Poe back in December, from the beginning of Poe, our intent has been to provide technology to enable broad access to LLM-based services, analogous to how the web browser enabled broad access to internet services.

There is a category of formal proofs that various things are impossible: the halting problem, the traveling salesman problem, Arrow's theorem, etc. As a general rule, I don't like these and don't think they are very useful in building or thinking about real-world systems. These proofs typically apply in extremely narrow cases: worst-case adversarial input, needing to optimally maximize an outcome rather than find something good enough, or other assumptions hidden in axioms needed to make the proof work.

AI is going to enable the creation and enforcement of laws 1000x as complex as we have today. This is mostly a good thing. Today's human-limited complexity means new laws often benefit 60% of people but are worse for the other 40% and it is a huge fight to make any progress. With AI-enabled unlimited complexity, "pareto" laws can be negotiated and passed that benefit every single member of society.

Today we are launching Poe subscriptions, which will provide paying users with access to bots based on two powerful new language models: GPT-4 from OpenAI and Claude+ from Anthropic. GPT-4 is a major advance relative to ChatGPT and is the most powerful language model available to the world today. It is particularly strong at creative writing, problem solving, and instruction following. For example, GPT-4 solves this 2023 AIME (math contest) problem correctly.

We are excited to launch Poe for desktop today at poe.com. With this launch, between our existing iOS app this new web interface, we believe Poe is now the fastest and easiest way to talk to AI across iOS and all desktop platforms. Poe currently supports ChatGPT from OpenAI (at poe.com/chatgpt), Claude from Anthropic (at poe.com/claude), and a few other AI-powered bots. Support for many more will be coming over the next few months. A few things make Poe unique today:

Pattern matching AI as "the next platform shift" like the PC/internet/smartphone leads to significant underestimates of its potential. Those previous technologies ultimately effectively reduced friction for people to communicate and collaborate. But for almost all applications, the impact of the technology was limited by the fact that a human had to be in the loop.

Today, we are opening up public access to a new AI product we have been building called Poe. Poe lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with several AI-powered bots. (1/n) It is initially available on iOS, but we will be adding support for all major platforms in the next few months, along with more bots. The best way to learn about Poe is to try it at poe.com, but read on below if you’re curious about why we’re building it. (2/n)

It's common in in-person meetings to "go around the room" and have everyone share their view on a topic. This is much harder over Zoom since everyone sees the group in a different order, and eye contact doesn't work. My thoughts: Zoom should add a feature for a person running the meeting to organize this. It could let them choose an order for others and then guide the group through the process, with a number over each person's video to show the order, and highlighting to show whose turn it currently is.