Comment by taylorfinley
10 hours ago
Came here to flag the same beat. It's wild to me Terrance Tao has to pay to talk to chatgpt, you would think it would be the other way around!
10 hours ago
Came here to flag the same beat. It's wild to me Terrance Tao has to pay to talk to chatgpt, you would think it would be the other way around!
"Activating Pro" doesn't mean "paying". It means selecting a slower/smarter model.
Yeah. I also only use pro in very specific situations. Not (just) because it's slow, but if the question is too simple or vague, pro responses are sometimes overfitting to the noise in my question. Until there is lots of context and the basics are laid out, high or xhigh somehow work better. Pro gives you the last 10%.
How would you envision ChatGPT paying Terrence?
OpenAI giving him a fancy schmancy title to advocate for their product, such as in the way he is inadvertantly doing here.
He doesn’t seem the kind who would sell his credibility for a few bucks.
OpenAI hiring him as a consultant, obviously, which may well be the case.
It's not so obvious. Taking my parent comment literally (as he said "the other way around"), one can assume that ChatGPT the platform itself would pay Terrence, rather than OpenAI.
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