Re:OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan
by zamnos on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:46AM
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They are just giving away GPT-3 grade queries. In terms of revenue, that's NaN% gross margin! Thus, -10,000% gross margin is quite the improvement. While I personally don't think that they are spending quite that much on compute, burning investor capital to build a customer base is a time honored tradition. Which means we can't really deduce that because -10,000% is such a big number, that can't possibly be their compute costs.
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Re:OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan
by Euphorbium on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:52AM
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Was this written by gpt?
Re:OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan
by zamnos on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @02:17PM
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If you ask ChatGPT what 1/0 is, you get a paragraph as to why it's undefined. Nowhere does it use the phrase "NaN". Perhaps you need to adjust your humor filter, LLMs aren't quite there enough to be able to use NaN% in context as a joke like that.
Also:
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're going to accuse me of using ChatGPT, at least bother to say why.
Re:OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan
by int_19h on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @02:52PM
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It really shouldn't use the word NaN in any case, since 1/0 would be +Inf. Meanwhile, here's what GPT-4 had to say (after refusing to talk about percentages at all at first because it is "impossible to calculate"):
>> ... suppose you're describing this to a technical audience - software engineers, specifically. There might be some way to talk about percentages concisely in that particular context.
> In that case, you could describe the situation to a technical audience by saying, "The company's profit margin is effectively -∞% due to offering the product for free while incurring expenses."