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The odds were truly stacked against this scrappy group of well-connected billionaires, supported by the largest tech companies in Silicon Valley, able to hire t
by transcriptase 4y ago
The odds were truly stacked against this scrappy group of well-connected billionaires, supported by the largest tech companies in Silicon Valley, able to hire the top talent in the world, originally touted as a non-profit that would democratize AI instead of gate-keeping it for the profit/benefit of the aforementioned.
At least they didn’t say “sike” as soon as the tech was good enough to monetize and pivot to being a for-profit tech company in itsel- oh.
- greatpostman 4y agoAgree they had an unlimited budget and hired true top talent. But my point still stands, none of the big companies are spinning up a group of 200 people in a new org and releasing game changing products. They can only do it by funding external groups. Facebooks whole business model was hiring expensive engineers that are good at executing and just copying any new competitors product.
- nickthegreek 4y agoGoogle has their own gpt AI, it’s just not released to the public.
- greatpostman 4y agoExactly, management is still riding the gravy train and won’t risk their now obsolete business model
- Vt71fcAqt7 4y agoYou do realize Google relaeses more products than anyone, right? (In fact, too many.) But with just an AI chatbot, there really isn't much of a product in it's current state. But lets say there is this massive product that Google is hiding, I'm really struggling to understand how Google releasing it risks their "now obsolete business model." I mean, what exactly is your claim here? Google has this killer product, but they aren't releasing it and putting ads on it because... they want to let someone else do it? But they _are_ still publishing the very research that will obsolete thier business model at no charge?
- nickthegreek 4y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2022/12/14/23508756/google-vs-chatgpt-ai-replace-search-reputational-risk https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/14/23508756/google-vs-chatg...
- Vt71fcAqt7 4y agoSo what's your point exactly? First OpenAI has 10x engineers that Google doesn't, now Google has the 10x engineers, as you acknowledged you know OpenAI used Google Brain's trsnsformer architecture, but it just isn't productising fast enough for you? You do realize OpenAI hasn't made a dime yet, right? So your so called 10x dream is just time to market? Not inovation, or releasing a real product?
- luma 4y agoI think this is true across nearly every industry. It’s easier and safer to invest in another business than to try and do it in-house, so they do. Maybe interest rates might change that approach in the future.
- Vt71fcAqt7 4y agoAmazing points. The day of the dorm-room student billionaire is already over. This said, GP's comment has some value. If we take "relatively small company" to mean number of employees (although this wasn't made clear) then there is some truth to the idea that a new, unencumbered company can do more than an established one. But I feel GP is minimizing Microsoft, Google and Nvidia's contributions to ML research, and perhaps overplaying OpenAI's role in pitting it against other players when clearly everyone is building on each other's result. GPT uses a transformer architecture, which was created by Google Brain, and the first GPT paper alone cites 71 other papers, each, in turn, citing their own...