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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,

by mc32 4y ago

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-some-companies-are-already-replacing-workers-with-chatgpt https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/02/27/009234/survey-claims-...

buildbot 4y ago
Nobody is doing this, unless you have a source you would like to link?
- celestialcheese 4y ago
  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.
- mc32 4y ago
  According to this survey: https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/02/27/009234/survey-claims-some-companies-are-already-replacing-workers-with-chatgpt 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.
  - woeirua 4y ago
    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.
    - kelseydh 4y ago
      It's their employees trying to keep their jobs who have.
    - lelanthran 4y ago
      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.
- hudsonjr 4y ago
  I think the source was this: https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-4-companies-have-already-replaced-workers-with-chatgpt/ 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.
  - buildbot 4y ago
    Yeah, not sure I would trust that data…
- holoduke 4y ago
  We use it for automated translations of sports commentaries. The results are mind blowing. Far ahead of Google translate.
  - celestialcheese 4y ago
    How does it compare to DeepL? And per-word human translation services like you'd source through Crowdin?
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- gigel82 4y ago
  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).
yborg 4y ago
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.

by mc32 4y ago

buildbot 4y ago

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

celestialcheese 4y ago
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.
mc32 4y ago
According to this survey: https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/02/27/009234/survey-claims-some-companies-are-already-replacing-workers-with-chatgpt 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.
- woeirua 4y ago
  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.
  - kelseydh 4y ago
    It's their employees trying to keep their jobs who have.
  - lelanthran 4y ago
    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.
hudsonjr 4y ago
I think the source was this: https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-4-companies-have-already-replaced-workers-with-chatgpt/ 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.
- buildbot 4y ago
  Yeah, not sure I would trust that data…
holoduke 4y ago
We use it for automated translations of sports commentaries. The results are mind blowing. Far ahead of Google translate.
- celestialcheese 4y ago
  How does it compare to DeepL? And per-word human translation services like you'd source through Crowdin?
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
gigel82 4y ago
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).

yborg 4y ago

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.