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What tech does OpenAI actually have? I thought GPT was most of the smarts and the website was just VC money to burn through cloud resources. I'd think Google c
by rr888 4y ago
What tech does OpenAI actually have? I thought GPT was most of the smarts and the website was just VC money to burn through cloud resources.
I'd think Google can do the same but realize the compute costs just make it too expensive.
- kornhole 4y agoOstensibly it is ChatGPT, but this is likely the consumer grade version released to create the illusion that the AI will be a public good to garner public support for it. The unbounded and more useful engines are only accessible by insiders.
- ilaksh 4y agoI have been using text-davinci-003 for awhile. Are you sure this is only for insiders? It doesn't have guardrails and was released around the same time as ChatGPT.
- dougmwne 4y agoI have a guess, just based on some observations. I believe Google is significantly ahead, but has no internal pressure to disrupt their own search product. I think this state of things was fairly clear since around 2015 when key SV VC folks started getting interested in creating their own AI play which became OpenAI. The “open” part of the name was always a reaction against Google which invented these wonders, then stuffed them in a safe deposit box. Microsoft is of course interested because ChatGTP already seems dangerously close to disrupting Google search. And there are whispers that GTP-4 will be another big step forward, maybe even big enough for the eventual ChatGTP-4 to be a clear winner for everyday users vs. search. The compute cost is an issue, but a temporary one since GPU power is still scaling nicely and there’s continued progress on getting model inference to use smaller compute budgets. If anyone was actually awake at the wheel at Google they should be afraid.