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Ask HN: Do you ever use GPT-3 in anger?

I was frustrated while writing a google search query that would get me the answer to a specific but mildly nuanced question before it hit me. I could just pose the question in the openai playground and then fact-check the answer.

This proved to be a much better experience than 30 seconds prior when I was just landing on fishing jargon dictionaries that I'd skim only to not find what I wanted. Those and the generic SEO gaming type articles that plaster the first page of most search engine results these days.

It was so much better that I might just start allocating 0.25USD per month to "nicer knowledge surfing" or something using GPT-3 instead of my own google-fu. And for the curious, here's what I wanted to know:

Question: what is the process of preparing fish, done after they are caught, but before they are available for sale in the marketplace called? Answer: The process of preparing fish, done after they are caught, but before they are available for sale in the marketplace is known as fish processing.

I can imagine that session turning into a rabbit hole of wikipedian proportion very quickly if I didn't just want an immediate answer to my question.

EDIT: apparently I don't know how to spell wiki

18 points tepitoperrito 4 years ago 15 comments

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