GPT-4 answers are often kind of brilliant and surprising in a very interesting and pleasing way. I don't know why anybody would want to use a dumb AI if they can afford the best. Well worth the $20/month.

You can very much do even cheaper if you use the API directly.

I don't have cable because I hate mainstream TV. ChatGPT is quite a bit cheaper than cable, so I can afford to be lazy about it. To be honest, I'm surprised so many are geeking out on the local models and not going for the most mysterious things you can do on advanced AI and then thinking about what the future holds. Some amazing things are coming down the pike. Who cares about the consumer app you think will make you rich?

> not going for the most mysterious things you can do on advanced AI

Like what? In my experience, there are very few things that GPT-4 is definitively better at. It's good at explaining stuff, but not so good that I would deliberately avoid ChatGPT to use it. It's alright at coding, but code-optimized models regularly beat it in benchmarks. Plus, it's got the same lame filter and even an arbitrary request limit for paying customers.

I struggle to really imagine the "mysterious things you can do on advanced AI" that is impossible or impractical on local models. In my time using GPT-4, I was not really left wanting for more so much as I wanted it to stop saying "As an AI model..."

> Who cares about the consumer app you think will make you rich?

Evidently, people like you.

> I struggle to really imagine

I feel it's a lot like looking at art. If you're happy with dogs playing poker painted on velvet then that's good for you, but I'm looking for something a little more satisfying. If your customers are happy with dogs playing poker painted on velvet then that's doubly good for you.

You can avoid a lot of that “as an AI model” by calling the API directly.

You can also tell it not to tell you it's limitations because it's an AI model.

For me is language learning.

I've been trying to learn Chinese for a while, and GPT-4 has been a very useful tool to answer grammar questions. I have tried the same with GPT-3.5 and some local models and the answers are never as good.