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Just from reading ycombinator on this topic I would say ChatGPT went all in on productizing - so like they hired developers to solve tasks for it to get trainin
by moonchrome 4y ago
Just from reading ycombinator on this topic I would say ChatGPT went all in on productizing - so like they hired developers to solve tasks for it to get training data etc. Maybe Google treated it as a research project and didn't pour billions in to productizing it sooner because like you said - they had the same algorithms/hardware/developer/researcher caliber and didn't view it as a threat.
And then when ChatGPT launched they got caught with their pants down and rushed to save face.
- krackers 4y agoFor years now Google has been shoving the word "AI" into its presentations. Just go through the past GoogleIO and see how many times they mention "AI". All along they've painted a picture of having some grand plan, that they've got something cooking internally that they're perfecting. Maybe some investors even believed it, after all if they're publishing cutting edge papers surely they must have a product backing this as well. And now Microsoft has called their bluff. And the irony is that if they had simply worked on perfecting standard keyword based information retrieval, the thirst for a LLM integrated search engine would not be as high.
- Sai_ 4y agoReminds me of their experience with the iPhone. They were sitting on android until the iPhone launched to mass appeal and left Google scrambling to catch up.