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> And today, we’re [...] opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks. It feels like a mistake t
by enumjorge 4y ago
> And today, we’re [...] opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.
It feels like a mistake to make the big announcement for this, but not open it up to a wide audience. It's not like ChatGPT hasn't been out for months now. Not sure how much they gain by making headlines before it's ready for people to play with it.
- nlh 4y agoWas thinking the same. My hunch is that their PR department thinks this will "create a buzz" much like the old waiting list for Gmail. But that feels like slow old thinking. The way you create a buzz these days (in the era of limited attention) is by releasing a kick-ass product for people to use and play with. I'll probably forget about Bard the second I hit submit on this comment and go right back to using ChatGPT.
- impulser_ 4y agoAll they have to do it add a link to the front page of Google and they will automatically get more users in day than ChatGPT.
- speedgoose 4y agoI would guess they don't have enough available computing resources for that.
- HarHarVeryFunny 4y agoThe announcement is probably targeting Wall Street more than any potential "user" (aka advertising target). The press was already bad - internal "code red" at Google due to panic that people saw ChatGPT as an alternative to search. Meta/FaceBook's head of AI, Yann LeCun, is in similar panic mode, issuing a non-stop torrent of tweets about how useless and unimpressive ChatGPT has... Presumably a reflection that FaceBook does NOT have anything comparable ready to release anytime soon.
- smoldesu 4y agoFWIW, Facebook's AI division has made some pretty insane contributions to the field relative to Google or Apple. I wouldn't disregard the stuff they're doing, even if I personally don't have a stake in Facebook or Meta's success.
- alecco 4y agoIf things keep the current trend, Deepmind, Meta AI, and many other remarkable labs will be this generation's Xerox PARC. OpenAI and Stability-AI will be be Apple and Microsoft.
- vagabund 4y agoLike what? Basically every research breakthrough from industry has come through Google.
- smoldesu 4y agoFacebook was first to the punch on AI photo tagging and facial recognition in their systems, but they also did a lot of foundational research on GANs and self-supervised learning. Plus, they do a lot of other tangential research around language and life sciences that might not get funded otherwise. Some of it is marketing bullshit, but Facebook seems to have a genuine interest in pushing the field forward. Admittedly Google is also not the best example though, seeing as they're the Tensorflow maintainers :p
- KeplerBoy 4y ago
- hnuser123456 4y agoSame way they shot themselves in the foot with g+. Maybe they know being top of web search and email is already a wide enough vertical and offering a dystopian chat AI so soon would be too disruptive for them and get too much attention.
- wvenable 4y agoThey failed to learn any lessons from the Google+ launch.
- xiphias2 4y agoGoogle and Facebook had a deal that Google stops doing social and Facebook stops doing search. I don't see the same thing happening between Google and Bing
- eachro 4y agoThose trusted tester will likely be their RLHF part of the pipeline.