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Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

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> We have been looking forward to reducing pricing for a long time. Our teams have made incredible progress in making our models more efficient to run, which has reduced the cost it takes to serve them, and we are now passing these savings along to our customers. Nothing to do with Stable Diffusion then, no?

Why bother use a GPT-3 model when you can use the free BLOOM model? Large "foundation" models will become a commodity -- a race to the bottom.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

#112
post #6

> We have been looking forward to reducing pricing for a long time. Our teams have made incredible progress in making our models more efficient to run, which has reduced the cost it takes to serve them, and we are now passing these savings along to our customers. Nothing to do with Stable Diffusion then, no?

Given that Dall-E 2's pricing hasn't changed, probably not.

Now that StableDiffusion is released, I expect that to change, unless there is a (certainly ultimately doomed) attempt to Hold the Line.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

#113

I'm really surprised they don't charge a very high price with a generous free tier, and then have an army of salespeople who will offer you whatever discount is necessary to make your business model work. If you want to use GPT-3 to build an AI-lawyer, it'll be very expensive... but to build a tool for customer support for walmart will be cheap, etc.

Do they need an army of salespeople, or just a finely tuned GPT-3 bot?

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

#114

What are people actually using GPT-3 for?

I can comment that a friend teaching college philosophy said his department is eliminating papers at the undergraduate level,

because it is now too easy to generate-then-polish papers at that level.

They're too good in other words: better than baseline even. And when touched up by a student who's putting in a modest effort, are disruptively better.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

#115

What are people actually using GPT-3 for?

I am using it for a little project to make deciding between Airbnbs easier: https://www.tripwise.me/

You basically just enter in the Airbnb URLs you're considering, and it'll use GPT-3 to scrape through the reviews in order to find anything negative or positive people are saying about the listings.

You can also ask any question you want at all, and it'll return answers (if people have mentioned it in their reviews). For example "Is the air conditioning loud?"

I would love to hear what others are using GPT-3 for!

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

#116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contrarily I wish people used 'Nx times' more often, especially for 10x in place of 'an order of magnitude'. It's more welcoming and less pretentious.

I'm not sure about using 10x in place of 'an order of magnitude'. An order of magnitude conveys an approximation, whereas 10x is precise.

10x is literally the difference of an order of magnitude.

  An order of magnitude is an exponential change of plus or minus 1 in the
  value of a quantity or unit. The term is generally used in conjunction with
  power-of-10 scientific notation.

  Order of magnitude is used to make the size of numbers and measurements of
  things more intuitive and understandable. It is generally used to provide
  approximate comparisons between two numbers. For example, if the
  circumference of the Sun is compared with the circumference of the Earth,
  the Sun's circumference would be described as many orders of magnitude
  larger than the Earth's. [1]


  An order of magnitude is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to some
  contextually understood reference value, usually 10, interpreted as the base of the
  logarithm and the representative of values of magnitude one. [2]
[1] https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/order-of-magnit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

#117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contrarily I wish people used 'Nx times' more often, especially for 10x in place of 'an order of magnitude'. It's more welcoming and less pretentious.

I'm not sure about using 10x in place of 'an order of magnitude'. An order of magnitude conveys an approximation, whereas 10x is precise.

To a mathematician the 0 signals the author intends less precision, but this is not colloquial use

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

#118
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?

One of my former colleagues who was always in charge of publishing our team's performance testing results was a complete hardass on the rest of us for using proper language around multipliers and superlatives. It's well worth the clarity to avoid precisely this situation.

Re: OpenAI API pricing update FAQ

#119
post #46

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…

>it can write technical documentation

For the love of god please NO.

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