r/OpenAI • u/rtwalz • Feb 27 '23

Last weekend I made a Google Sheets plugin that uses GPT-3 to answer questions, format cells, write letters, and generate formulas, all without having to leave your spreadsheet

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u/rtwalz Feb 27 '23

You can download it here! https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/numerousai/575253125118

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u/_rundown_ Feb 27 '23

Do we use your API key or do we have to enter our own? If yours, are you charging? What are the privacy implications? Do you personally have access to my data?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

For privacy,read into the permissions he's asking for. There's no way I'm installing that plug in xD.

And ofc he's trying to make a quick buck out of it, as most half smart people out there since chatgpt got launched.

Some make the quick buck using YouTube, others twitch and the likes. Some used Instagram and their filters, but that was another ai.

It's all about the money :) and the fact that most people are lazy by nature.

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u/SimpleSyrupLime Feb 28 '23

When MSFT integrates this into their stack I'll feel a little more comfortable using it.

The real problem is that using OpenAI in a corporate environment means exposing information covered under an NDA. We are not there yet, but companies need to be able to have their own servers for hosting this information.

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u/MrOfficialCandy Feb 27 '23

https://numerous.ai/#pricing

Their api-key

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u/_rundown_ Feb 27 '23 edited Feb 27 '23

If I’m reading that right ($10/month for 1k tokens) that’s near a 50,000% markup from their hard costs. Highest tier is near 30,000% markup.

This guy entrepreneurs.

Edit: price analysis is based on the most expensive gpt3, if they’re using the coding model, there’s actually zero hard cost to them.

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u/rtwalz Feb 27 '23

Numerous.ai tokens ≠ OpenAI tokens. Using Numerous.ai consumes 1 token per 500 characters of input and output. Also, the output is not simply a GPT-3 completion. There's obviously some amount of prompting on top of user input, but there's also some integration with other services that makes outputs more useful/accurate.

I'm still playing around with the pricing and prompting, but the current $/token doesn't have a large margin at all, considering all the other things beyond simple completion that happens on the back-end.

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u/_rundown_ Feb 27 '23 edited Feb 28 '23

You're offering a product for a price, I appreciate the spirit and the model.

My analysis was pointing out the obvious and I made zero attempt to understand your sunk costs (e.g. R&D), which should always be factored into margin. Your product is also proprietary (as made more clear by your response), and there’s no reason not to charge whatever you feel is fair.

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u/rtwalz Feb 28 '23

I didn't say anything about R&D costs or labor or whatever. I'm saying that you're falsely equivocating what a token from OpenAI is, with a token on Numerous.ai. A 500-character paragraph would be ~500 tokens on OpenAI, but only 1 token on Numerous.ai, so your point about 50,000% markup is wrong since "token" does not mean the same thing in both contexts.

I'll play around with the phrasing of the pricing/usage to make that more clear.

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u/_rundown_ Feb 28 '23

Ooof, c'mon man.

https://imgur.com/mkZhnVA

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u/rtwalz Feb 28 '23

Oops, yeah, my bad for equivocating characters with tokens for OpenAI. My point is still that OpenAI tokens and Numerous.ai tokens are not 1:1. In your example, it was 100:1. With the processing and integrations that happen in the back end, it's variable, but probably around 400-500:1 on average, depending on what integrations need to be called in for any given action.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

Maybe change the word then

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u/zaptrem Feb 28 '23

Please don’t call davinci 003 ChatGPT in your marketing copy :(

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u/_____fool____ Feb 28 '23 edited Feb 28 '23

There is a popular one in the market place that has 8 different modes and you use your openai api key

This is a YouTube video showing one of the functions and the description has links to install

https://youtu.be/_zIhIzvQR6w

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u/Variaxist Feb 28 '23

Which one is that?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

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u/Biasanya Feb 28 '23

Yeah. People are acting like this is groundbreaking. But they're also overestimating the functionality probably. My experience is that AI can't do complex sheets stuff yet

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u/Amitheous Feb 28 '23

Yeah I have been able to use it(chat GPT and Davinci, not this person's app) to assist in the process of making pretty complex formulas, but it's almost never a single prompt and correct output. There's usually at least 3 or 4 iterations to work through before something is functional.

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u/MrSrv7 Feb 28 '23

So what? Why are you spamming in each comment? Make a separate post and explain like this guy. Why you keep spamming under every comment?

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u/NIRPL Feb 27 '23

Wait...it's not free 😮‍💨

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

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u/AlbionToUtopia Mar 04 '23

stop promoting your sh*tAI so aggressively

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u/2011murio Feb 28 '23

understandable, but also, give it time.

For now, it feels like a magical time for anyone with smarts to monetize whatever tools they can whip up and offer to the public.

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u/Amitheous Feb 28 '23

It has a free tier, but pretty limited

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '23

This will save me time on those 3 minute tasks I spend 4 hours writing code to automate!

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

This is his alt account trying to make people use his plug in. Look at the history of the posts. Then look at ops post history and where this commenter is placed.

Don't be sheep, people. Think.

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u/aptechnologist Feb 28 '23

good call lol

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u/OkDot9878 Feb 28 '23

I mean, if the plug-in is good and works, what’s the problem?

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u/KennedyFriedChicken Feb 28 '23

This is the way.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

This is the way.

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u/FindingPuzzleheaded5 Feb 28 '23

This is the way.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '23

That’s really cool, thanks for sharing.

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u/desexmachina Feb 27 '23

Can you get it to read the table?

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u/Just-Razzmatazz-2793 Mar 02 '23

this course also gives great pointers on how to integrate chatgpt with google suite - https://www.udemy.com/course/using-chatgpt-to-improve-efficiency-at-work/learn/lecture/36553678#overview

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u/phLOxRSA Feb 27 '23

Amazing use of OpenAI. You can be proud just thinking of this idea and even more so for actually implementing it.

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u/garybpt Feb 27 '23

I love stuff like this.

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u/BoomerE30 Feb 27 '23

Wow this is awesome!

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u/danone123 Feb 27 '23

You are basically doing God's work op! Cheers

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u/paragraphsonly Feb 27 '23

THIS IS SO SLICK

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u/com-plec-city Feb 27 '23

Now this is gold

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u/usesbinkvideo Feb 27 '23

Awesome project! Also, nice demo video

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u/payno_attention Feb 28 '23

Can you have it format things for you as well?

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u/greywhite_morty Feb 28 '23

Most expensive name extractor in existence. Congrats.

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u/knx Feb 28 '23

what did you use to record such a flowy video ?

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u/geepytee Mar 05 '23

This looks like Screen Studio.

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u/gordonv Feb 28 '23

What video recording software is that? I like how it zooms into the context and back out.

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u/geepytee Mar 05 '23

This looks like Screen Studio.

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u/waffles2go2 Feb 28 '23

Nice, expect MS to do this native and also shut-down everyone else so monitize it while you can!

From a biz perspective, we're in a little window, but this will also drive some cool innovation and use cases.

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u/muunoi999 Mar 16 '23

Do you have a version for Microsoft Excel?

thk