How come general developer audiences aren't more acquainted with GPT-3 (and Codex in particular) capabilities? People in the twitter thread all seem completely mind blown over an app that basically just passes your code to an existing API and prints the result.
I don't want to sound negative of course, and I expect many of these apps coming up, until Codex stops being free (if they put it on the same pricing as text DaVinci model, which Codex is a fine-tuned version of, it will cost a ~cent per query). I'm just wondering how come the information about this type of app reaches most people way before the information about "the existence of Codex" reaches them.
For all the publicity around Codex recently (and especially on HN), it still seems like the general IT audience is completely unaware of the (IMHO) most important thing going on in the field.
And to anyone saying "all these examples are cherrypicked, Codex is stupid", I urge you to try Copilot and try to look at its output with the ~2019 perspective. I find it hard to beileve that anything but amazement is a proper reaction. And still, more people are aware of the recent BTC price, than this.
Source: have been playing with Codex API for better part of every day for the last few weeks. Built an app that generates SQL for a custom schema, and have been using it in my daily work to boost ma productivity as a data scientis/engineer/analyst a lot.
I don't want to sound negative of course, and I expect many of these apps coming up, until Codex stops being free (if they put it on the same pricing as text DaVinci model, which Codex is a fine-tuned version of, it will cost a ~cent per query). I'm just wondering how come the information about this type of app reaches most people way before the information about "the existence of Codex" reaches them.
For all the publicity around Codex recently (and especially on HN), it still seems like the general IT audience is completely unaware of the (IMHO) most important thing going on in the field.
And to anyone saying "all these examples are cherrypicked, Codex is stupid", I urge you to try Copilot and try to look at its output with the ~2019 perspective. I find it hard to beileve that anything but amazement is a proper reaction. And still, more people are aware of the recent BTC price, than this.
Source: have been playing with Codex API for better part of every day for the last few weeks. Built an app that generates SQL for a custom schema, and have been using it in my daily work to boost ma productivity as a data scientis/engineer/analyst a lot.