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The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

#12
“48 hours of conversation with GPT-4“

Heh, sounds like a novel form of torture. The author probably means 48 hours total over a (much) longer time, and it had all been an enjoyable ride of turbocharged learning and discovery, but that's not how it reads to my eyes.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

#13

The post says there's a huge difference between GPT-4 and ChatGPT? But which version of ChatGPT?

They mention the 25 messages per 3 hours limit, so I assume they're talking about the difference between GPT 3.5-turbo and GPT-4 that's available when you pay for ChatGPT Pro.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

#14
>If you are an individual developer, the leverage it provides might be 10 times greater, but when you work for a company, that number might be only 2

These numbers are arbitrary and if you're looking for leverage, a company with a lot of customers is a good way to find it.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ChatGPT March Version, I think.

But if you're a paid subscriber you can access GPT4 through ChatGPT's interface. Are you saying there's a difference between using the GPT4 model alone vs. the GPT4 model in the ChatGPT interface? If so, could you please clarify with an example?

That's right. I just went to look and it looks like ChatGPT has been updated to the May version. But in terms of previous experience: ChatGPT's code is almost unusable, it always ignores the most basic logic, and I only use it to write short scripts. But GPT-4, even if it contains multiple files referencing each other, it gives code that I don't even need to do Code review.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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post #7

Learning something with GTP-4 is so much more fun than using google/Stack Overflow. It's like having a tutor that knows your code and gives you hints and solutions based on your actual project. It's a real game changer for learning

Yeah, but how do you get access to 4?

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

#17
This post reminded me that I’m still somewhat surprised ChatGPT-like systems did not arise out of China first due to their massive investment funds for AI and their base of stem talent.

Once they catch-up their censors will have a super power and people will have their writings censored before they hit submit.

Will be an interesting decade.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

#18
post #7

Learning something with GTP-4 is so much more fun than using google/Stack Overflow. It's like having a tutor that knows your code and gives you hints and solutions based on your actual project. It's a real game changer for learning

Yeah, but how do you get access to 4?

You need to pay for ChatGPT Plus, or sign up for their API (there’s a waitlist).

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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This post reminded me that I’m still somewhat surprised ChatGPT-like systems did not arise out of China first due to their massive investment funds for AI and their base of stem talent. Once they catch-up their censors will have a super power and people will have their writings censored before they hit submit. Will be an interesting decade.

> somewhat surprised ChatGPT-like systems did not arise out of China first due to their massive investment funds for AI and their base of stem talent.

Does China innovate in this way? I think software is not a linear function of money in, value out. Inventing new programs and techniques is interesting as I’m sure what the spark is, and it certainly takes money, but that’s not the most important part.

I remember reading in Masters of Doom about how John Carmack came up with some of the innovations id software used and was amazed that he, alone, came up with stuff that large, well-funded teams could not.

I expect that China could have invested its entire GDP into stem and AI for the past 10 years and would not have came up with LLMs and ChatGPT. Or perhaps they did, but kept it secret and would never release it as a product to the public.

But I believe the former based on the few software companies and few software innovations coming out of China in the past 20 years.

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