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Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by alexb_ »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #33

I 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

In a few years, when a generative text model that's actually open is made, erotic text will 100% be a main use. But of course people don't like thinking about that...

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by dr_dshiv »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #41
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #33

I 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

It’s incredibly good at generating scholarly text. Put in a title and abstract and it will come up with a strong intro that is clear and compelling. It helps me write academic papers more clearly, as a result. Also, great for early stages of grant writing or proposals. It came up with a fantastic conference proposal for me that I spent 20 minutes editing and then just sent, unedited. It will aid speechwriters or help…

I also asked it to help me write a letter to my homesick daughter at summer camp. It was really helpful. I feel that GPT3 has an enviable degree of emotional intelligence, nuance and conceptual understanding. Writing and communicating effectively with people is very hard. Our own emotions get in the way. Now we have technology that can help people be better communicators with each other. It’s a big deal.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by matthewmacleod »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #41
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #33

I 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

It’s incredibly good at generating scholarly text. Put in a title and abstract and it will come up with a strong intro that is clear and compelling. It helps me write academic papers more clearly, as a result. Also, great for early stages of grant writing or proposals. It came up with a fantastic conference proposal for me that I spent 20 minutes editing and then just sent, unedited. It will aid speechwriters or help…

It came up with a fantastic conference proposal for me that I spent 20 minutes editing and then just sent, unedited.

Was this comment written by GPT-3?

(That said - are all comments written by GPT-3?)

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by floxy »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #27
dbrueck wrote: post #22

Is 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 know what you mean. 1x cheaper would be same price. 3x cheaper means “the new price times 3 equals the old price.” However this is easier than percents or fractions. 100% cheaper means free. Do you want something 67% cheaper, 2/3s cheaper or 3x cheaper?

>1x cheaper would be same price.

Let's say you have a product for sale at $32. Then you have a sale to boost name recognition, and have a coupon for $32 dollars off (limited time offer). Or equivalently, that would be $32 cheaper. So the net price is free ($0). $32 cheaper = 100% cheaper = 1x cheaper. Likewise, 25% cheaper = 25% less expensive, or doing the math $32 - 0.25*$32 = 0.75*$32 = $24.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by rvz »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #42
rvz wrote: post #10

Or how about opening everything up and releasing all the models as open source? Since even with these price decreases, lots of competitors are out there with more parameters and are open source, and are already matched or just as good as GPT-3 and are generally running OpenAI's pricing to the ground. Might as well open everything up since you can't compete with free anyway.

The free alternatives to OpenAI are not as good as OpenAI. For example, Craiyon (formally DALL-E Mini), is good, but it's nothing compared to the real DALL-E.

> For example, Craiyon (formally DALL-E Mini), is good, but it's nothing compared to the real DALL-E.

Yet Stable Diffusion is already getting open sourced and is just as good, if not better than what I am seeing with DALL-E 2.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by nonethewiser »

mg wrote: post #46
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #33

I 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

GPT-3 is useful for a lot of things. It can write essays, it can write technical documentation, it can write speeches, it can write fiction, it can write poetry, it can write jokes, it can write jokes about jokes, it can write jokes about jokes about jokes, it can write jokes about jokes about jokes about jokes, it can write jokes about jokes about jokes about jokes about jokes, it can write jokes about jokes about j…

This is hilarious.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by [deleted] »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #53
dr_dshiv wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s incredibly good at generating scholarly text. Put in a title and abstract and it will come up with a strong intro that is clear and compelling. It helps me write academic papers more clearly, as a result. Also, great for early stages of grant writing or proposals. It came up with a fantastic conference proposal for me that I spent 20 minutes editing and then just sent, unedited. It will aid speechwriters or help…

It came up with a fantastic conference proposal for me that I spent 20 minutes editing and then just sent, unedited. Was this comment written by GPT-3? (That said - are all comments written by GPT-3?)

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Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by osigurdson »

dbrueck wrote: post #22

Is 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?

It probably means that it has 3X better value. If I spent $1 previously to do X, I can now do 3X for the same $1.

I think this is more intuitive for most people than using percent difference for the same reason using a raw ratio (speed up) is better for expressing performance improvement.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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Post by [deleted] »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #33

I 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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