Using GPT-3 for Accounting

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Angles and VCs are getting way too excited watching twitter GPT-3 demos. Just wait until they discover the magic of prolog.

The AI aspect of this demo is really just NLP. The heuristics taught to GPT-3 could just as easily be encoded in a database.

There would be a lot less magic if these demos showed the prompt they used to prime GPT-3.

Isn't that the exciting part? That your average literate person can do things that only a programmer could do previously.

This was precisely the promise of 1980s expert systems

Can you give some examples? Most of the fancy demos I have seen would require complex prompts.

Perhaps I've been fooled. I assumed the priming was also just casual nlp.

I wish more people had access to their API. Last I checked there was a long waiting line and it was only possible to get if you had a name in the industry.

Hope this changes so amateurs can start such experiments too!

You can speed up the process by DMing the CTO of OpenAI (Greg Brockman). Make sure you have a strong use case.

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1284144873512173570

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