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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
This is actually a big deal since this includes the davinci model everyone uses and was the biggest obstacle to cost-affordable deployment of GPT-3. The exemption for finetuned models is interesting: since they were 2x the price of the old prices, they're now 4x-6x more expensive than the base models. I bet that's how OpenAI really makes their money with enterprise.
Otherwise, I’ve been using a model finetuned on the complete works of Plato and I have really been enjoying the new dialogues.
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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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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?
The so-called "open" in their name is an oxymoron. The whole thing is a trap. We need to work on our own, possibly publicly founded but really open solutions rather than depend on proprietary ones.
Thankfully we have free alternatives to GPT-3 (BLOOM [0]) and DALL-E 2 (Stable Diffusion [1])
[0] https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom
[1] https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/releases/tag/v0.2.3
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?
Which would be 33% the original price.
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
Anyone being honest should admit it (was) more hot air and hype than reality.
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…
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?
> We’re making our API more affordable on September 1, thanks to progress in making our models run more efficiently.
If you visit the page the price change is pretty clear, they show the before and after. 1k tokens will be anywhere from 1/2 to 1/3 the current price depending on which model you're using.
This is actually a big deal since this includes the davinci model everyone uses and was the biggest obstacle to cost-affordable deployment of GPT-3. The exemption for finetuned models is interesting: since they were 2x the price of the old prices, they're now 4x-6x more expensive than the base models. I bet that's how OpenAI really makes their money with enterprise.
Any good use cases for fine tuned models? I’ve been wanting to put in all my previous academic works and references and see how that changes things. Otherwise, I’ve been using a model finetuned on the complete works of Plato and I have really been enjoying the new dialogues.
I suspect some of the more custom "be a better writer" services use a finetuned davinci.