ihateshadylandlords t1_irbth00 wrote on October 6, 2022 at 8:44 PM

Reply to comment by TFenrir in “Extrapolation of this model into the future leads to short AI timelines: ~75% chance of AGI by 2032” by Dr_Singularity

I’m not tech savvy at all, I didn’t know there was a difference between API and GPT3. But yeah, that’s why I’m not as hyped as a lot of people on here whenever AGI is created. It’s not like we’ll be able to use it (unless someone creates an open source version of it).

iNstein t1_irceopl wrote on October 6, 2022 at 11:33 PM

API stands for Application Programming Interface. It is basically a series of commands that programmers can use to access/communicate with another program like GPT3. A kind of specialised instruction set for your program like gpt3.

Having an API connection to something like gpt3 is very similar to having gpt3 running on your own computer in a functional sense. It just means that you do not have to have the high performance hardware to run it on. It is the best option for something like gpt3 to be able to get as many ordinary people using it without us all going out and buying extremely expensive hardware.

ihateshadylandlords t1_ircgn2e wrote on October 6, 2022 at 11:51 PM

Good to know, thanks for the explanation.