It took less than a week for OpenAI’s ChatGPT to reach a million users, and it crossed the 100 million user mark in under two months. The interest and excitement around this technology has been remar...
EDIT #2: In less than 24h after applying I was approved, now time to get to work. Sorry about the noise.
EDIT: Sorry, I tried to deploy before even reading the readme where it clearly states that one needs to request access via the exact same form I describe below. So, fingers crossed.
So, I tried to deploy this thing and ran into a wall. Automated deployment failed with
The subscription does not have QuotaId/Feature required by SKU 'S0' from kind 'OpenAI'
So, I tried to deploy Azure OpenAI to my account via the portal (here: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.CognitiveServicesOpenAI) and ran into the this message: "Azure OpenAI Service is currently available to customers via an application form. The selected subscription has not been enabled for use of the service and does not have quota for any pricing tiers.".
It points to a form on which one requests access and by the types of questions asked it seems to me that it is not easy to be allowed access, so what then? I did fill out the form with accurate answers but I'm not holding my breath on being approved.
So, how can us, mere mortals, be able to access this?