[prohobo]

First of all, don't use ChatGPT for that. Use full GPT-3, specifically the code models (ie. code-davinci-002).

ChatGPT is a subset & tweak of the full GPT-3 model to make a good chatbot, and it's actually less capable than the full model.

It's strange to me that people are going crazy over ChatGPT when GPT-3 has been out for months now.

More info on the difference between ChatGPT and GPT-3: https://dev.to/ben/the-difference-between-chatgpt-and-gpt-3-...

[stevenhuang]

That's flat wrong. That is ChatGPT's answer to the difference between ChatGPT and gpt3. ChatGPT does not really know about itself, its data cutoff is from 2021.

ChatGPT is trained on a variant of gpt-3.5 (instructgpt), read more here https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

[prohobo]

Okay, maybe I'm wrong, but the article doesn't explain how ChatGPT compares to GPT-3.

[orisho]

ChatGPT uses the model text-davinci-003, which was released alongside it. The previous model of the same kind was text-davinci-002, and in a comparison I read, seems to perform much less impressively. So it's not just the chat interface. It's genuinely more impressive in my opinion.

[prohobo]

Ah that's weird. Using text-davinci-003 in the playground gives very different answers to ChatGPT, and that's with playing with the temperature as well.

[arcturus17]

> First of all, don't use ChatGPT for that

> It's strange to me that people are going crazy over ChatGPT when GPT-3

People are going crazy because of the combination of the capabilities of the model and the UX.

Surely you can appreciate how deploying your own full GPT-3 based solution to assist in code generation is much more complex than going to a web app and typing "code me an Express server".

[fvdessen]

For me the conversational interface is what makes the AI useful as a coding companion, how do you integrate GPT-3 in your workflow ?

[prohobo]

I've just been using the Playground. Also, working on creating a voice activated personal assistant.

[JohnAaronNelson]

GitHub Copilot

[femboy]

Well, ChatGPT is free for now.

[WheelsAtLarge]

Yup, free will always help your popularity.