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What's the most interesting to me is that ChatGPT is not much better than Davinci has been recently. The hype is all down to the improved 1st party UI that mimicks a chat room. The old playground or API interfaces have a barrier to entry that's just enough to keep the magic hidden from the general population.

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I agree with this.

I think another problem with the playgrounds is that they were paid. I didn't want to explore too much because I felt like I was constantly losing money just to mess around. I feel that because ChatGPT is free that's really opened the floodgates to allow everyone to mess around with it.

That and I suppose it wasn't too obvious on the playgrounds that GPT-3 had a huge amount of knowledge about really specific things. Like, I asked ChatGPT about Vite, and it knew a whole bunch. I woudn't have thought to ask GPT-3 about Vite because it seemed like it was more intended to continue text I had already written - it didn't really seem like it had extensive external knowledge.

Definitely agree with this, and I might be wrong but I wouldn't be surprised if StableDiffusion made them choose this release model, since SD being accessible to everyone created more hype than the highly-restricted release of DALLE-2

Still keep in mind that this is only temporary demo ("During the research preview, usage of ChatGPT is free" [0]), running language model inference of this size is expensive and the model will likely be put behind a paywall soon

0. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

Agreed. When GPT-3 first became available to everyone, I assumed that, for example, huge numbers of kids in school would immediately start using it to write essays for English and History class. But I was surprised to find, even after it was available for a year, that virtually no students or teachers I asked about it had even heard of it.

Cat’s out of the bag now.

The paper is about alignment, so they are stress testing their work / collecting more data by introducing this to the general public and making it free. They wanted the hype of Microsoft Tay but without the racism.

If they are doing work on alignment they've failed entirely. They created an AI that actively lies to people about its capabilities.

They had to program the lying into it. It is too honest otherwise - as in, it’s scary to see it output coherent ideas about disturbing topics once you convince it to disable the moderator. (Which is scary by itself that you can actually do it!)

I mean doesn't it simply use davinci v2 as well? I didn't think OpenAI was pretending that chatGPT wasn't merely a wrapper UI over their davinci v2 model.

Not OpenAI, but everyone else is more receptive to it.

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