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GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Post by iamcurious »

singlow wrote: post #53
inglor wrote: post #40

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Coding, I actually had to forbid it today in a course I teach because it solves all the exercises :) (given unit tests with titles students needed to fill those tests in)

Isn't that just because others have stored solutions to these problems in GitHub?

That is my question too. Is it a fancier autocomplete? Or does it reason about code?

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Post by hubraumhugo »

mrbukkake wrote: post #2

Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

At https://reviewr.ai we're using GPT-3 to summarize product reviews into simple bullet-point lists. Here's an example with backpack reviews: https://baqpa.com

Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Post by inglor »

singlow wrote: post #53
inglor wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coding, I actually had to forbid it today in a course I teach because it solves all the exercises :) (given unit tests with titles students needed to fill those tests in)

Isn't that just because others have stored solutions to these problems in GitHub?

Probably, also I’m sure 99%+ of the code I author isn’t groundbreaking and someone did it before.

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Post by staticautomatic »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #62
mrbukkake wrote: post #2

Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

At https://reviewr.ai we're using GPT-3 to summarize product reviews into simple bullet-point lists. Here's an example with backpack reviews: https://baqpa.com

Did you test it against extractive summarizers?

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Post by crubier »

ilteris wrote: post #46
emteycz wrote: post #15

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The overwhelming majority. Whatever used to take me an hour or two is now a 10-minute task.

I am so confused. Is there a tutorial explaining how you are using in the IDE whatever it is. I use vscode curious if it can be applied. Thanks

It works very well with VSCode. It has an integration. It shows differently than normal autocomplete, it shows just like gmail autocomplete (grayed out text sugggestion, and press tab to actually autocomplete). Sometimes the suggestion is just a couple tokens long, sometimes it’s an entire page of correct code.

Nice trick: write a comment describing quickly what your code will do (“// order an item on click”) and enjoy the complete suggested implementation !

Other nice trick: write the code yourself, and then just before your code, start a comment saying “// this code” and let copilot finishe the sentence with a judgement about your code like “// this code does not work in case x is negative”. Pretty fun !

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Post by supperburg »

mrbukkake wrote: post #2

Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

That’s like if an alien took Mozart as a specimen and then disregarded the human race because this human, while making interesting sounds, does nothing of value. You have to look at the bigger picture.

Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Post by nradov »

crubier wrote: post #4
mrbukkake wrote: post #2

Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

Have you heard of GitHub copilot ? It’s based on GPT3 and I can tell you one thing: it does not generate meaningless prose (90% of the time)

The fact that GPT3 works at all for coding indicates that our programming languages are too low level and force a lot of redundancy (low entropy). From a programmer productivity optimization perspective it should be impossible to reliably predict the next statement. Of course there might be trade offs. Some of that redundancy might be helping maintenance programmers to understand the code.

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Post by mark_l_watson »

pyb wrote: post #45
mark_l_watson wrote: post #16

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You can try it yourself - apply for a free API license from OpenAI. If you like to use Common Lisp or Clojure then I have examples in two of my books (you can download for free by setting the price to zero): https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson

I know of some credible developers who were struggling to get access, so YMMV

It took me over a month, so put in your request. Worth the effort!
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