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ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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Re: ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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I have started incorporating ChatGPT into my side project. I'm not integrating it into software or anything like that, but using it as a tool for product ideas, product photo ideas, funny social media captions, figuring out the best hashtags to use, product tagging and categorization. It has proven to be a great way to get everything to around 70%, then send off to my assistant for the remaining 30% of polish. So at…

I paid for it, then stopped paying for it. It seemed to be completely novel and fun to use but after a while it just became a pain. I tried writing a library to act as a code assistant for data science but trying to get it to write the codes that were useful to me took around the same amount of time as writing them myself. What you say is completely correct, it gets to around 70% of whatever you ask it to do then you…

The cheap version does all of that much worse. I don't understand how people can be so cheap.

Re: ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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Isn't Microsoft too late to the chip game? Both their competitors AWS and GCP have their own ML training chips, while Azure has nothing. The article seems like they may have something by next year, but by that time the competition would have evolved even more. Nadella has executed on strategy brilliantly but on the cloud seems it seems like the tech innovation is a bit lagging. It hasn't mattered that much so far tho…

It feels like Microsoft realized that sales/support matters way more than technology when it comes to cloud services. See how Azure has a ton of users despite being much worse than AWS or GCP by every objective metric. I would imagine that Google's reputation as a company where it is impossible to ever talk to a human (even when you have a 7 figure annual spend) hurts them in this space.

This has been Microsoft's MO for decades. Just barely good enough engineering/technology paired with a great sales team.

Re: ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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interesting that the article mentions Microsoft is trying to build their own AI chips to help reduce cost, they are years behind Google in that effort. Google still has the advantage in both research and hardware, they just fumbled the execution but it's still very early in the game

> they are years behind Google in that effort. Google still has the advantage in both research and hardware, they just fumbled the execution but it's still very early in the game Where do we think Apple is in regards to this? If anyone has the upper-hand here with hardware, I would think it'd be Apple. But there's been zero indication that Apple has been working on any sort of generative AI.

Local Siri for June WWDC :)

Re: ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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It's almost like ChatGPT is nerd-sniping us all. But we like it and it's useful to us.

Don't generalize, I've never used it and never seen any reason to use it.

My grandma has never used the internet and sees no reason to use it.

It would benefit her immensely to use it.

Re: ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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This might sound tone deaf but thats seems extremely cheap to me. It means the cost range for chatGPT is between $300m - $500m per year. If the 100m users is accurate, it means they only need to convert low single digit percentage to paying users to break even. Now it makes sense why they chose to charge $20/m, I predicted much higher.

I have started incorporating ChatGPT into my side project. I'm not integrating it into software or anything like that, but using it as a tool for product ideas, product photo ideas, funny social media captions, figuring out the best hashtags to use, product tagging and categorization. It has proven to be a great way to get everything to around 70%, then send off to my assistant for the remaining 30% of polish. So at…

archive link unpaywall : https://archive.ph/Txq8r

better source : https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/18/1326235/microsoft-r...

Re: ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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Now I wonder what are the emissions. Is this technology net positive in long run for things like climate change?

I have used it to help people eliminate food waste. My reach is about ~100k people max.

I imagine people will be using this to create wasteful products, but also green solutions.

Re: ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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I have started incorporating ChatGPT into my side project. I'm not integrating it into software or anything like that, but using it as a tool for product ideas, product photo ideas, funny social media captions, figuring out the best hashtags to use, product tagging and categorization. It has proven to be a great way to get everything to around 70%, then send off to my assistant for the remaining 30% of polish. So at…

I paid for it, then stopped paying for it. It seemed to be completely novel and fun to use but after a while it just became a pain. I tried writing a library to act as a code assistant for data science but trying to get it to write the codes that were useful to me took around the same amount of time as writing them myself. What you say is completely correct, it gets to around 70% of whatever you ask it to do then you…

>> I'm not going to pay 20$/month for something that I can just use for free

Well, it works until it doesn't because the website is overloaded. $20 gets you in through the VIP door and you don't need to wait along with the rest of the peasants.

Re: ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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I paid for it, then stopped paying for it. It seemed to be completely novel and fun to use but after a while it just became a pain. I tried writing a library to act as a code assistant for data science but trying to get it to write the codes that were useful to me took around the same amount of time as writing them myself. What you say is completely correct, it gets to around 70% of whatever you ask it to do then you…

The cheap version does all of that much worse. I don't understand how people can be so cheap.

There are so many subscription products these days that it makes sense to assess the value of each carefully before committing.

If you're like me you tend to forget you're paying for something, and have to do a yearly purge.

It's very easy to slowly but surely rack up hundreds of dollars a month in subscription services.

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