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GPT-3 Explorer

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Initially I thought: wow, finally I can play with GPT-3 without going through the closed beta application process. But the tool requires an OpenAI API key. The linked website doesn't specify that with a single word. It's only mentioned on Github.

I've been there myself tbh. When you have worked a lot on something, it's often hard to take a step back and specify all of the basic things that people first exposed to your invention don't know about.

"OpenAI" == Orwellian DoubleSpeak

Its literally one of the most closed projects in existence. The fact they call it "OpenAI" is an insult.

You know about it, so it's definitely not "one of the most closed projects in existence." It is perhaps one of the more exclusive and overly-hyped projects.

I think the word 'open' was meant to imply open source, not to distinguish between covert ai ops and public ai ops. In that case I think they haven't done enough to make it open to the public.

I am looking forward to all the new AI startups that launch when the OpenAI GPT-3 API goes out of beta. Their secret sauce will be nothing more than a handcrafted prompt, which would be like launching a company based on a fancy SQL query used to query a 3rd party database.

And then the gnashing of teeth 2 years later when the terms or the availability of the API change, making half of the startups nonviable.

with enough resource you can recreate what the paper describes. I'm still not sure if this stuff useful to sell as a service though

You could also just steal OpenAI's cluster in a midnight heist, that might be easier.

There are multiple groups working on reimplementations of GPT-3. It's not that difficult, just requires a certain level of compute resources which a lot of BigCos and large organizations have on tap already.

Exactly. Building an entire startup on top of someone else's API (Especially when the big players can also access it) doesn't seem to be a great idea.

The only winner here is always OpenAI.

I'm already dreading all the SEO spam it will lead to.

At some point the SEO spam will become so good that it will become interesting content

One day, we might even reach full-on https://xkcd.com/810/

I'm more curious to see what happens when single developers are able to launch products which are vastly better than existing solutions, using just a couple days of effort.

1) Big Corp approaches the single dev saying that Famous Boss of Big Corp is impressed by his project and would like to hear more about it and maybe acquire his project

2) Single dev shares secret sauce (if necessary) during due diligence

3) Big Corp makes a super low offer

4) Big Corp puts 2 engineers on it to copy the result

5) Big Corp is now Bigger Corp, and single dev is still single.

Yes, this is exactly how it will go down I think. Somewhere I read a great analysis which said this was the opposite of "disruptive innovation", but instead this type of innovation will primarily reinforce the positions of the incumbents.

How do we get a key? I "applied" by saying i'm interested in it however I have no idea if that has even 1 in 1000 chance of getting me approved :(

I did the same a long time ago. No key yet, but waiting patiently and in excitement.

I've met people who applied to it at different times. None have got the key yet, including me. I don't think they are handing out many api keys. They probably had some sort of limit in mind when they launched and they probably reached it already. Unless you're a company or individual they are particularly interested in, I think the chances of getting it in the near future are quite slim :(

I jokingly said i wanted to have the key so I could replace journalist's jobs.

Still no luck on getting the key.

I applied with, I think, a reasonable use case, but no word either. I don't have much hope to try it in practice anytime soon.

Looks very promising (although I have no API key)!

Feature request: I got surprised when I was asked to sign in. Introduce an anonymous mode where "Sign in with Google" is not enforced. History could be exported locally and imported from the file system.

I keep coming to these threads to read about GUID Partition Tables and disappointed someone is using the initials for something else.

Does anyone know if they'll ever release the models for GPT-3 so we can train/re-train then ourselves? Or is GPT-3 so general that it doesn't need retraining?

I don’t know if they will release the models, but are you sure you can train a 170 billion parameter model? Last I heard it’s around 500GB, which would require serious infrastructure.

What's interesting with machine learning is that in a few years time algorithms get efficient enough to train the same quality models on commodity hardware. At the same time organizations are always a few years ahead :(

This is cool! Excited to try it.

Although the API is already pretty experimentation and REPL-friendly. I recorded a video here of the development experience: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1286813984159444992

If GPT-3 was trained on the Internet and even if some information is publicly available, then solution described might be somehow legally protected. Does GPT-3 recognises that?

Can I request a share in selling of GPT-3 license if I prove that uses my solutions?

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