OpenAI API

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Post by gdb » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:05 PM UTC

OpenAI API
beta.openai.com

Re: OpenAI API

#2

Post by alphagrep12345 » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

Interesting to see this. Is this similar to Google and Azure's ML apis?

Re: OpenAI API

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Post by ericlewis » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:49 PM UTC

Exciting!

Re: OpenAI API

#4

Post by m_ke » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

I guess Sama plans on manufacturing growth metrics by forcing YC companies to pretend that they're using this.

Generic machine learning APIs are a shitty business to get into unless you plan on hiring a huge sales team and selling to dinosaurs or doing a ton of custom consulting work, which doesn't scale the way VCs like it to. Anybody who will have enough know how to use their API properly can jus grab an open source model and tune it on their own data.

If they plan on commercializing things they should focus on building real products.

Re: OpenAI API

#5

Post by lerax » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:55 PM UTC

Natural Language Shell seems fun

Re: OpenAI API

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Post by wildermuthn » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

m_ke wrote: post #4

I guess Sama plans on manufacturing growth metrics by forcing YC companies to pretend that they're using this. Generic machine learning APIs are a shitty business to get into unless you plan on hiring a huge sales team and selling to dinosaurs or doing a ton of custom consulting work, which doesn't scale the way VCs like it to. Anybody who will have enough know how to use their API properly can jus grab an open sourc…

I imagine they’re considering offering GPT-3, which would be cost prohibitive to fine-tune for most people. I also I heard inference was too slow to be practical. Perhaps they have some FPGA magic up their Microsoft sleeves.

Re: OpenAI API

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

m_ke wrote: post #4

I guess Sama plans on manufacturing growth metrics by forcing YC companies to pretend that they're using this. Generic machine learning APIs are a shitty business to get into unless you plan on hiring a huge sales team and selling to dinosaurs or doing a ton of custom consulting work, which doesn't scale the way VCs like it to. Anybody who will have enough know how to use their API properly can jus grab an open sourc…

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Re: OpenAI API

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Post by owenshen24 » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:58 PM UTC

Seems potentially more simple to get up and running then the Azure and Google Cloud alternatives which seemed involved when I last tried them.

Re: OpenAI API

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Post by andyljones » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

Concrete numbers from the various pullouts:

> They saw ratings hover around 60% with their original, in-house tech — this improved by 7-8% with GPT-2 — and is now in the 80-90% range with the API.

> The F1 score of its crisis classifier went up from .76 to .86, and the accuracy went up to 96%.

> With OpenAI, Algolia was able to answer complex natural language questions accurately 4x as often as it was using BERT.

I think the most informative are the first two, but the most _important_ is the final comparison with BERT (a Google model). I am, uh, a little worried about how fast things will progress if language models go from a fun lil research problem to a killer app for your cloud platform. $10m per training run isn't much in the face of a $100bn gigatech R&D budget.

Re: OpenAI API

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Post by brainless » Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 4:00 PM UTC

This is what I submitted for beta list:

I want to create a software that can generate new code given business case hints, by studying existing open source code and their documentation.

I know this is vague, but sounds like what we eventually want for ourselves right?