> However, never underestimate the world-upending impact of "a nice UI". GPT-3 was available for years. But almost nobody knew or care
I’ve been using GPT-3 through the API since it was available for my discord bot. The difference with ChatGPT (gpt-3.5) was astounding, they weren’t even close in capabilities.
Though GPT-3.5 was available a few months before ChatGPT came out (code-davinci-002 was the GPT-3.5 base model, text-davinci-003 had some instruction tuning and RLHF applied). But somehow almost nobody noticed the steep increase in capabilities compared to GPT-3 (davinci).
text-davinci-003 was awful compared to the ChatGPT model. You can try right now text-davinci-003 and gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct and the difference is monumental.
I’ve been using GPT-3 through the API since it was available for my discord bot. The difference with ChatGPT (gpt-3.5) was astounding, they weren’t even close in capabilities.