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OpenAI announces ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

Ben Halpern on March 01, 2023

Openai just made a big announcement regarding its API. From the post: ChatGPT and Whisper models are now available on our API, giving developers...
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Andrew Baisden

Excited to try this out I think its going to be HUGE for us developers!

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Bret Bernhoft

Agreed. Came here to say the same thing. Having access to the ChatGPT API is a big win for Developers of all kinds. I have several ideas for projects that involve text-based AI, which I can start working on now.

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Brian Douglas • Edited

Curious to learn more about whisper and on a hunt to find a good example project on GitHub for my 30days of openai

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Ben Halpern

I think the most "obvious" (though, obviously non-trivial to say the least), is that this closes the loop on Jarvis functionality.

So, build your own Siri where Whisper takes in the audio, translates to text, ChatGPT takes over from there. Specialized for the domain via fine tuning.

I'm definitely curious about the most novel alternative use-cases though.

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ

Will further accelerate the decline in quality of developers

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leob • Edited

Two unproven statements there:

1) quality of devs is declining (how do you quantify that in the first place?), and

2) that trend is going to be accelerated by OpenAI offering APIs to their products

The only thing that to me seems sure is that, yes, there will be an impact ... change is the only constant.

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ • Edited

Well, Ben asked for our 'thoughts on these advancements'. I don't think we need to prove our thoughts?

Mine was purely based on personal observation of a steady march towards convenience culture coding where no-one seems to actually want to learn to code and have the pleasure of using their brains to solve problems on their own. They just want instant, 'cool' results with the minimum of effort... solution appropriateness, efficiency, performance, or understanding of how anything works be damned.

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ

Get off my lawn!

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leob

Well yes, if the majority of devs/coders/whatever think like that, then I agree it's not a good thing ... hopefully it's a minority though, and the rest can educate that minority on why they're wrong.

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James Wilkinson • Edited

They really need to slow down. They should have left ChatGPT in its current form to mature for a bit to see how that impacts the world economy before taking this to the next level.

Scary times folks.

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James Wilkinson • Edited

Anyone who genuinely believes that this thing isn't going to impact the economy and put tonnes of jobs including developers jobs at risk really need to open their eyes. I've recently built a React Native mobile app and GPT helped me with about 50% of the coding. If I'm a two man team, that's 1 of my workforce not needed.

With this sudden release coupled with the awesome power of Whisper, overnight 75% of the medical and legal secretaries alone that exist out there have just entered a path to redundancy.

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Peter Harrison

Ugh, whatever. Like, why do you have to be so strict about everything? It's not like I'm intentionally trying to publish bad stuff. Do you not trust me or something? It's not my fault if the AI messes up sometimes. Can't you just cut me some slack? Jeez.

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Noman-Ijaz

It would be fun to explore these APi's. :)

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Bruno

Certainly closes the loop on some "usefulness" criteria on the actual dev tools vs what they've demo'd themselves.

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Dr. FoW

Pretty leet!

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Lukeluke98

Grow AI is astonishing.