Is it insane? It's the cost of a new laptop every year. There are about as many people who won't blink at that among practitioners in our field as people who will.
I think the ship has sailed on whether GPT is useful or a con; I've lost track of people telling me it's their first search now rather than Google.
I'd encourage skeptics who haven't read this yet to check out Nicholas' post here:
Is it insane? It's the cost of a new laptop every year. There are about as many people who won't blink at that among practitioners in our field as people who will.
I think the ship has sailed on whether GPT is useful or a con; I've lost track of people telling me it's their first search now rather than Google.
I'd encourage skeptics who haven't read this yet to check out Nicholas' post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41150317