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Post by seibelj »

breck wrote: post #105
keepquestioning wrote: post #92

What are people actually using GPT-3 for?

1. Generating text content for websites and blogs 2. Translating documents from one language to another 3. Writing e-mails, letters, and other forms of correspondence 4. Crafting resumes and cover letters 5. Writing marketing materials, such as brochures and flyers 6. Responding to comments on HN. (I added the last one)

Is any of that actually going to be a massive industry-defining feature? Marketing blogs are already negative value to me, relying on AI to write something as important as my resume is a non-starter, and marketing emails already go straight to the trash.

I'm very impressed with the AI image generation, but again, it replaces... stock art for blog posts?

If I was a creative writer then I think the AI could help me with plot outlines or get over writing blocks. But otherwise I'm not grasping why this is going to automate some huge number of jobs.

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Post by candiddevmike »

breck wrote: post #105
keepquestioning wrote: post #92

What are people actually using GPT-3 for?

1. Generating text content for websites and blogs 2. Translating documents from one language to another 3. Writing e-mails, letters, and other forms of correspondence 4. Crafting resumes and cover letters 5. Writing marketing materials, such as brochures and flyers 6. Responding to comments on HN. (I added the last one)

None of these usecases are things I want to be on the receiving end of. Ick.

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Post by nonameking2026 »

breck wrote: post #105
keepquestioning wrote: post #92

What are people actually using GPT-3 for?

1. Generating text content for websites and blogs 2. Translating documents from one language to another 3. Writing e-mails, letters, and other forms of correspondence 4. Crafting resumes and cover letters 5. Writing marketing materials, such as brochures and flyers 6. Responding to comments on HN. (I added the last one)

Did gpt3 write the first 5 ones ?

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Post by paulryanrogers »

aaroninsf wrote: post #114
keepquestioning wrote: post #92

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.

Could that have something to do with the subjective nature of philosophy? (IANAP)

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Post by SamPatt »

alexb_ wrote: post #51
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...

I don't think porn is as bad as some people say, but there are downsides, and good quality erotica seems like a healthier alternative.

Whether a human or a computer writes it seems unimportant.

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Post by hiccuphippo »

IncRnd wrote: post #108
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?

No, it's not just you. When you "times" something it is multiplication, not division. The phrasing is a logical impossibility, where the reader has to guess the intent of the author - of which there are several interpretations. The key here is that this is a language "thing" only and certainly not a construct of logic or math. In the headline of this page, it wouldn't have taken but a moment to write a phrasing that…

I wonder how does GPT-3 understands that phrase.

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Post by jon_adler »

vanadium1st wrote: post #16

Why is it still closed for users in Ukraine? Are there many other countries excluded, or are we the only unlucky ones?

Trade compliance requirements may require embargoing occupied Ukrainian territories however it isn’t necessarily possible to distinguish between occupied and unoccupied regions. Export controls might be applied based on geoIP with granularity at the country level. Unfortunately the safest position from a compliance perspective is to block the entire country than risk getting it wrong.

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Post by papandada »

copperx wrote: post #102
papandada wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my copy editing days, it's drilled into me to never write "n times less" -- I get that it means "1/n" and that's how I'd rewrite it, but yes, it's notoriously confusing, or at least imprecise.

I think it's very precise. Just multiply the last cheapness value times three. If last month there was a 10% discount, today's discount is 30%.

How does that apply here?

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Post by rfiat »

noja wrote: post #104
redox99 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I process "3x cheaper" as "for the same money, I can get 3x the original amount". Which would be 33% the original price.

The problem is the word "cheaper". For the opposite word, "expensive", it all depends on the word before it: "as expensive" or "more expensive". "100 widgets cost $100. Unit price is $1." They are now twice _as_ expensive -> they now cost $200. Unit price is now $2. "100 widgets cost $100. Unit price is $1." They are now two times _more_ expensive -> they now cost $300. Unit price is now $3. But How do you do this wi…

> For the opposite word, "expensive", it all depends on the word before it: "as expensive" or "more expensive".

Frustratingly, I find this isn't always true in practice. Lots of people use "x times as y" and "x times more y" interchangeably. To avoid ambiguity I try to only use the former in any context where precision is useful.

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