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Thankfully the world is already moving on from these neanderthals. Eluther's GPT-J (https://6b.eleuther.ai/) isn't QUITE as good as GPT-3, but it's getting close, and was, as I understand it, much more efficient to create. This trend will likely continue, and within a year or two GPT-3 will be old news. Considering OpenAI has proved themselves to be vicious liars, greedy soulless fucks and pandering, censorial assholes, obsolescence couldn't happen to a nicer group.

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It was the high cost per API call that pulled all the fun out of GPT-3 for me. I hadn’t been following the company at all but believe you based on just that single issue. It looks like GPT-J has open sourced their entire model so I could potentially run it myself for almost-free? If so, that’s going to be much more fun. Thanks for sharing!

It's not exactly "almost free"; you need a powerful GPU, which are extremely costly right now. But apart from the cost of that and power, free.

That thought was why I added “almost” right before posting! It’s free to run, just, except for the expensive parts... AWS still rents out GPU power, right? That might be a bit easier to get started with.

You can rent GPUs from various cloud providers, but those are hilariously expensive too even given datacentre GPU prices.

not possible, to run the original gpt3 model, you need at least 8 gpus to just hold all it parameters in memory

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Too bad OpenAI doesn't allow free use of technology. Otherwise bots like above can be developed more easily.

Again, care to read the literal guideline above? You're blatantly violating it.

Name checks :)

The content is informative (within the poster's partial opinion) and the epithets can just be interpreted as colourful language to lighten up. Is it possible you interpreted it differently? In some cultures that post has the style intentionally used to elicit a warm laughter - styling is legitimate when applied to a valid (promoting "intellectual curiosity") content.

It's difficult to believe that there are cultures where calling people "vicious liars, greedy soulless fucks" is meant to be a light, playful comment.

In many Western European areas that language is not necessarily impulsive flaming, but pondered qualifying with selected, honest terms.

The «playful» part is in your «light» unstirred pacified soul as you hammer out those heavy descriptive judgements.

They disappeared into their own fantasy land long ago. They announced that investors will have profit caps because their magical AGI will learn how to achieve infinite profit one day.

Statements like this must be remembered so that in the future we can point to this era's most ridiculous companies and the people behind them.

>Eluther's GPT-J (https://6b.eleuther.ai/)

Did this website receive HN's "hug-of-death"?

Seems fine, just quite slow, as it says.

no, it's just expensive to run a 6 billion parameter model. the. limiting factor is the hardware

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