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Read this article a few years ago and was glad it was published! It definitely reduced competition judging by the popularity on HN when it first debuted. We we

Read this article a few years ago and was glad it was published! It definitely reduced competition judging by the popularity on HN when it first debuted. We were building our company on the back of GPT-3 and soon sold it for a life-changing amount of money. So starting a business around GPT-3 ended up being a very good idea :)

geoduck14 4y ago
Don't stop there. What was the business?
- Sharma 4y ago
  I think it is - https://snazzy.ai/ https://snazzy.ai/
  - chrisfrantz 4y ago
    Correct https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/unbounce-snags-snazzy-ai-to-add-automated-copywriting-to-platform/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/unbounce-snags-snazzy-ai-t...
    - dnnssl2 4y ago
      What kind of ML techniques did you use on top of GPT-3, outside of the baseline model?
    - akrymski 4y ago
      Congrats that's awesome! When was it founded? Also why would Unbound pay anything more than the cost of an engineer to integrate GPT-3 themselves? What was their thinking or what extras did you bring to the table?
      - chrisfrantz 4y ago
        We had users, early PMF and revenue :)
joe_the_user 4y ago
Of course this doesn't show GPT-3 is the basis for anything reliable or long term, just that the start-up market is pretty fluid.
- swyx 4y ago
  i'm sure GP is crying into his wads of cash right now
  - joe_the_user 4y ago
    Sure, the GP is happy. I'll admit my main interest as an amateur researcher/pundit is the "how much can current AI components be used as elements/inputs to reliable software" rather than "can you make money with this". I think the interesting thing is how hard it is to combine neural output into something reliable in the real world. It gives clue that some ingredient and not just some level of processing power, might be missing.
bspammer 4y ago
Sounds like another case of “pessimists sound smart, optimists get rich”.
- int_19h 4y ago
  Optimists get either rich or ruined, but the latter isn't something that people like to boast about.

geoduck14 4y ago

Don't stop there. What was the business?

Sharma 4y ago
I think it is - https://snazzy.ai/ https://snazzy.ai/
- chrisfrantz 4y ago
  Correct https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/unbounce-snags-snazzy-ai-to-add-automated-copywriting-to-platform/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/unbounce-snags-snazzy-ai-t...
  - dnnssl2 4y ago
    What kind of ML techniques did you use on top of GPT-3, outside of the baseline model?
  - akrymski 4y ago
    Congrats that's awesome! When was it founded? Also why would Unbound pay anything more than the cost of an engineer to integrate GPT-3 themselves? What was their thinking or what extras did you bring to the table?
    - chrisfrantz 4y ago
      We had users, early PMF and revenue :)

joe_the_user 4y ago

Of course this doesn't show GPT-3 is the basis for anything reliable or long term, just that the start-up market is pretty fluid.

swyx 4y ago
i'm sure GP is crying into his wads of cash right now
- joe_the_user 4y ago
  Sure, the GP is happy. I'll admit my main interest as an amateur researcher/pundit is the "how much can current AI components be used as elements/inputs to reliable software" rather than "can you make money with this". I think the interesting thing is how hard it is to combine neural output into something reliable in the real world. It gives clue that some ingredient and not just some level of processing power, might be missing.

bspammer 4y ago

Sounds like another case of “pessimists sound smart, optimists get rich”.

int_19h 4y ago
Optimists get either rich or ruined, but the latter isn't something that people like to boast about.