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With reports[1] (maybe exaggerated, maybe apocryphal) of companies replacing FTEs with chatGPT, even at these high prices, it may make sense in some use cases, no, tho presumably this kills the playpen use cases.

[1]https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/02/27/009234/survey-claims-...

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Give it a year or two. Did you read the article? Bain and all the other consulting companies are gearing up to "transform business architectures" with this prize pony. This is the going to be even bigger than outsourcing/offshoring was in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Nobody is doing this, unless you have a source you would like to link?

Here's one anecdotal source confirming this - specifically some copywriting contractors. Significantly less hours needed per month writing. A lot more hours for our editors but it's still significant cost savings when netted out.

According to this survey: https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/02/27/009234/survey-claims-...

"Earlier this month, job advice platform Resumebuilder.com surveyed 1,000 business leaders who either use or plan to use ChatGPT. It found that nearly half of their companies have implemented the chatbot. And roughly half of this cohort say ChatGPT has already replaced workers at their companies...."

There are anecdotes elsewhere as well.

Yeah, I'm going to need some names here for companies, because there is no way 50% of the Fortune 500 have done _anything_ productive with ChatGPT in less than a month.

It's their employees trying to keep their jobs who have.

The GP didn't claim that, they claimed that 50% of companies that already are in the ecosystem have implemented something, and 25% of companies already in the ecosystem have used it to replace employees.

I have my doubts about that claim, but it's still a very different claim to 50% of companies.

I think the source was this: https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-4-companies-have-already-...

Now I would ask, what "business leaders" would fill out a random survey for a resume company. Additionally there's no real meaty info provided.

Yeah, not sure I would trust that data…

We use it for automated translations of sports commentaries. The results are mind blowing. Far ahead of Google translate.

How does it compare to DeepL? And per-word human translation services like you'd source through Crowdin?

No link, but I heard rumors from someone at MS that themselves heard rumors (so take that as it is) that higher-ups ran pre-release next-gen GPT models on Office source code (millions of lines of MS-specific pre-standard C++ code) and tasked the model to implement a feature which it did flawlessly.

Don't know if that's a rumor some VP started spreading to justify the culling coming next week (bulk of the layoffs) or something real (I personally doubt the anecdote but you never know).

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