Apps and Startups powered by GPT-3
Recently, research lab OpenAI announced a new version of GPT-3 — language prediction model. Engineers and Researchers at OpenAI try to design a language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. GPT-3 composes poems and prose, translates dialogues and answers questions, although it has never specifically learned to perform these tasks.
A lot of media sources have already covered the GPT-3 topic. For example, The Guardian published an essay written by GPT-3 about why people shouldn’t be scared of AI. There are thousands of tweets about it with numerous use cases.
I enjoy learning about the latest Hi-tech and always try to figure out their applicability. Therefore, in this blog post, I want to outline some of the existing products and startups powered by GPT-3. If you want to learn more about GPT-3, you can read the article written by The Verge. If you want to design your own product or just experiment with GPT-3, read the Ultimate Guide by Twilio.
GPT-3 Examples
AI Dungeon
I’d like to kick off with one of the most interesting projects - AI Dungeon. This is a text adventure game, in which the script is created on the move by the player. They say it can even understand the sarcasm:
Copy.ai
Apparently, there are more applied projects that solve business problems. For example, the Copy.ai startup allows you to create marketing copy for any products and any audiences in seconds. Such a project is certainly not a substitute for all copywriters, but it will definitely help to reduce their number.
Replika.ai
Since Leta Capital focuses on Russian-speaking technology entrepreneurs, we found such a project powered by GPT-3 as well. Replika.ai is a chatbot companion that can be your friend, romantic partner or mentor.
Spreadsheets on steroids
Also, there are a lot of cases which I called TextToSmth:
Simple English to SQL
Text to CSS
Text to Figma
More projects can be viewed via the #gpt3 hashtag on Twitter, at https://gpt3examples.com/, and in the Reddit post.
GPT-3 is an amazing technology. There are many applications for it. Perhaps, someone immediately had a desire to make his own app. However, there’s no need to rush. The fact that GPT-3 works so well out of the box should be terrifying to founders. If it’s easy to make a good-enough app out of the box, the barriers to entry are mercilessly low. Dozens of competitors for your idea will spring up literally overnight, as they already have in these Twitter demos. It means that the competitive advantage is likely to be won not by technology but by budgets. Also if your product depends on GPT-3 with no viable alternative, just like Spotify is reliant on record labels, you lose all the pricing leverage. Anyway, it’s very interesting to see when a big company will pop up powered purely by GPT-3?
Despite potential problems, we at Leta Capital are interested in possible apps powered by GPT-3. So, if you already have a ready project, then feel free to send us a presentation by mail or leave an application on the website. Or write in comments about your app!
