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by robocat 1213 days ago
There is a huge gain if English is your second language, and you use ChatGPT to rewrite, or translate.

Even if English is your mother tongue, if your written English is crappy or you need to write in a style you are unfamiliar with (e.g. formal), then ChatGPT can help.
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mtlmtlmtlmtl 1213 days ago
If you're writing in a style you're unfamiliar with, how do you know the model is doing it correctly?

I also think writing yourself might be far better practice. This tool can easily become a crutch. This is unlikely to be free anytime soon. In fact it's likely to be quite expensive.

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robocat 1213 days ago
I think we all tend to be better at picking out a correct answer than generating a correct answer from scratch.

I can ask ChatGPT to rewrite an email in the style an American news reporter from 1950, and I can judge whether some of the cliches it generates feel correct. I cannot write in that style at all.

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simonh 1213 days ago
ChatGPT is free now, although there is a paid tier, and MS and Google are building similar capabilities right into their search interfaces.
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mtlmtlmtlmtl 1213 days ago
ChatGPT won't be free forever.

Whatever LLM search stuff comes along will only be free as long as it brings in ad revenue. Which involves making the models fundamentally worse most likely. Or they'll use it to collect personal data. Probably both.

Computationally, GPT is wildly expensive. This idea people have that it's gonna be used all over the place for all sorts of tiny tasks, as if it's just another REST API, is nuts. Unless something fundamentally new comes along that makes these models much cheaper, adoption is likely going to end up much more limited than people expect. Or siloed off into expensive business-facing products.

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Dylan16807 1213 days ago
The cost estimates I see are things like less than half a cent per query and a few cents per conversation.

If I'm making (or valuing my free time at) $20 an hour, then ChatGPT only needs to save me one or two seconds and half a minute respectively.

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chrisdbanks 1213 days ago
And like everything, the price will drop rapidly as the models become smaller through advances. There's already sparseGPT.
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