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Ask HN: Do you have GPT-4 access?

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Are you feeling crippled in the AI research & development space without GPT-4 (API) access?

Have any independent researchers here managed to get access? What was the app you were developing?

My interest is that two projects of mine, one solo health-related project (being trialed informally by an interested professional), and one as research for a medium-sized entertainment company, have not received ClosedAI's blessings. I feel I'm practically out of the game until access is granted, struggling with flint and tinder while the competition is cooking with gas.

What can those of us without access do in the mean time?

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tempaccount420
I signed up to the waitlist a few hours after they announced GPT-4 and still don't have access.
ftxbro
I don't have it either (joined wait list first day), but you got to be more positive on social media like this where they can see you. For example you can translate your rant to a more friendly one with gpt:

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Hey there fellow AI enthusiasts,

I was wondering if any of you have had the opportunity to access GPT-4 (API) yet? I'm really excited to start using it for my health-related project and research for an entertainment company, but unfortunately I haven't been granted access yet.

I was wondering if any of you have any tips on what we can do in the meantime while we wait for access? I'm really eager to get started but I don't want to fall behind the competition.

Thanks so much in advance for any help or advice you can offer.

hahnchen
On the 28th, I gained access to it and signed up only a few hours after the waitlist had been announced.

As a student, I responded to the question about my intended use by stating my plan to create an app aimed at assisting fellow students. So that probably helped me boost through the waitlist.

amrb
Silly question, but would it be more impactful to use grey or open models to achieve the goals? End of the day the finally model may need to run outside a datacenter so if people don't fine-tune models this could be a limiting factor.
courseofaction
In theory, but GPT-4 is miles ahead of grey and open models, especially considering plugins. Not really feasible.
f0e4c2f7
I pay $20/mo for ChatGPT plus to get access to gpt-4. At one point they stopped offering memberships due to capacity issues. Not sure if it's available again or not.

It's as good as they say. Significantly better at programming than I have ever been (though I was always a pretty average programmer, lot of hacky code).

paco3346
I, too, pay for plus access. It's completely worth it for the myriad of random tasks/questions I throw at it.

I can think of 1 occasion I needed some C code for parsing UDP packets. I copy & pasted the unformatted pdf contents of the spec and told GPT "I need code for parsing this". It made a struct, a method for parsing, and wrapping code to use it all of which was 100% accurate/usable. Such a huge time saver.

debian3
Have you compared it to phind.com professional mode?
swah
I pay but not really using it. Copilot is just so much easier to use..
solresol
Maybe I was just early in the game, but yes, I've got access. I didn't have any particular project that I wanted it for.

Email address in my profile.

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congoe
I got one by submitting an eval to there github repo. Took me about an hour.
muzani
Yeah, here's the message I got.

"As an early customer we'd love to hear about your experience. Feel free to share feedback on our community forum or reach out directly to our team."

It was really fast too, about 3 days after it was announced. I did have GPT-3 access for about 2 years, and wrote tutorials and stuff about GPT-3.

I also paid for ChatGPT+ for one month, but other friends who have subscribed earlier didn't get it.

Someone asked what I wrote in the waitlist form; I don't remember because GPT-4 filled it in, lol

maxilevi
I got it quite fast but probably because I develop a consumer product with it.
mathndata
I kept trying to get chatgpt plus for two weeks until I finally got it two weeks ago. GPT-4 certainly feels like an upgrade.
nirav72
Chatgpt plus subscription includes gpt4 access. At least via chat.
RecycledEle
Yes, $21 a month is cheap given how much I use it.
swah
How are you using? I use Copilot much more... I think I'd use it more if I was doing a new project.
RecycledEle
First, I use GPT 4 to study for certification exams. When an objective is just weird and I don't understand it, GPT usually makes it make sense.

Second, I am using it to improve my writing. I say "Please rate this: ..." and get tips on how to improve my writing.

Third, I am using it to create online classes. When I can not find a way to explain something, GPT gives me a page that belongs in a textbook.

jacooper
Use Bing!
Szpadel
I very recently compared the usefulness of gpt4 vs bingai assuming that theoretically bing should be gpt4 with search. I assumed that for codding tasks access to up to date documentation would be very beneficial for that model. unfortunately I didn't even manage to convince bing to search for documentation and results were not very satisfying
ChildOfChaos
I read Bing only uses GPT 4 when in creative mode, else it's GPT 3.x, not sure how true that is, but I haven't really found Bing very good.
jacooper
Interesting, my experience with bing has been pretty positive. Chatgpt would be useless for me because it doesn't have any access to the internet.
replwoacause
I got access less than 24 hours after requesting it, but I also pay for ChatGPT+. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
retrac98
Yes, I pay for access. It costs $20 a month and saves me many hundreds a month in time.
Szpadel
I personally would be more excited to get any access to the large context gpt4 model.
villgax
Lol no, Llama & it's genus is enough for me & every enterprise
adamquek
Yes, I have access to both ChatGPT Plus and the GPT-4 API. I use GPT-4 on ChatGPT Plus daily, primarily for quick coding help, and it is significantly more advanced than GPT-3.5 in this regard. As for the GPT-4 API, I don't use it extensively at the moment, just occasionally to experiment with newer applications like Microsoft's Jarvis project (HuggingGPT). Eventually, I plan to integrate the Whisper API, GPT-4 API, and Elevenlabs API to create my own personal assistant.

For those without access, GPT-3.5 is still an impressive tool. A friend of mine uses GPT-3.5 with autoGPT and achieves remarkable results. I recommend exploring GPT-3.5 and not solely focusing on obtaining access to GPT-4.

jnaina
Yes, I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT plus ($20/mo). Worth every cent.
ChildOfChaos
Not yet.

I am really hoping for free access soon without plus, but I don't know how realistic it is yet.

I do like it a lot, but it just seems kinda pricey for me when I don't have an exact use case for it.

seventhtiger
It's not available in my country because OpenAI has opinions on foreign policy.