Why is it still closed for users in Ukraine? Are there many other countries excluded, or are we the only unlucky ones?
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OpenAI API pricing update FAQ
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#32Is this free markets in action, subvention by VC money or both?
My guess is lower pricing makes the product more accessible to more people (and business models).
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#33I lack imagination. What is GPT-3 (and generative text models in general) useful for, other than toys? It can write essays, can we expect it to replace writers for newspapers and magazines? Can it write coherent technical documentation? Replace speechwriters?
Edit: looks like the comment thread below is similar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554955
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#34Is this free markets in action, subvention by VC money or both?
I'm sure those are factors, but it's mainly (1) GPU prices have dropped significantly, and (2) a lot of progress is happening in optimizing large language models to be more efficient while maintaining performance.
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#35Is this because GPT-4 is about to be released and they want to charge full price for that?
Why wouldn’t they just charge more for the better, improved GPT-4?
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#36Is it just me, or are phrases like "3x cheaper" hard for other people to grok too? For some reason they always require me to pause and try to sort it out. Like, is the price being reduced by 66% or 75% or something else? What would "1x cheaper" mean?
I usually read that as "new price = old price / X" where X = "3" in this scenario. In my head, "1x cheaper" would mean "new price = old price / 1", so no reduction, I guess.
3x cheaper = (1/3)x more expensive. I suppose that also means when tripling the price of something we can say it's just (1/3)x cheaper.
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#37I lack imagination. What is GPT-3 (and generative text models in general) useful for, other than toys? It can write essays, can we expect it to replace writers for newspapers and magazines? Can it write coherent technical documentation? Replace speechwriters? Edit: looks like the comment thread below is similar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554955
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#38I lack imagination. What is GPT-3 (and generative text models in general) useful for, other than toys? It can write essays, can we expect it to replace writers for newspapers and magazines? Can it write coherent technical documentation? Replace speechwriters? Edit: looks like the comment thread below is similar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554955
I wrote a few notes in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554955
Here's one that I find personally really interesting:
Imagine you have a disability, and the government agencies responsible for helping you have denied your claim. You need to write them a letter. You don't have much (if any) experience writing letters to government agencies, so you're finding that task challenging.
GPT-3 can write that letter for you, and it will de a really good job of it.
Of course, you need access to GPT-3 and you need to learn how to drive it with prompts, so this isn't necessarily an easy thing. But I think it helps lean in the direction of the kind of benefits people can get from this class of technology outside of just playing with the AI.
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#39Why is it still closed for users in Ukraine? Are there many other countries excluded, or are we the only unlucky ones?
I'm not sure about OpenAI's internal policies, but I've worked for several SaaS companies that complied with Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to limit access to "Embargoed and Sanctioned Countries" which has meant CRIMEA - REGION OF UKRAINE, CUBA, IRAN, NORTH KOREA, and SYRIA. ITAR (defense related) and OFAC (finance related) both have further restrictions. For us, it was easier to block all of Ukraine rather than limit to access to Crimea in particular.
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#40I lack imagination. What is GPT-3 (and generative text models in general) useful for, other than toys? It can write essays, can we expect it to replace writers for newspapers and magazines? Can it write coherent technical documentation? Replace speechwriters? Edit: looks like the comment thread below is similar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554955
I wrote a few notes in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554955 Here's one that I find personally really interesting: Imagine you have a disability, and the government agencies responsible for helping you have denied your claim. You need to write them a letter. You don't have much (if any) experience writing letters to government agencies, so you're finding that task challenging. GPT-3 can write th…
How is this different or more useful than providing a template with madlibs-style fill in the blanks?