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I can already see now where AI advancements will get bogged down / killed or derailed...when the companies funding the research and launching the products reali

I can already see now where AI advancements will get bogged down / killed or derailed...when the companies funding the research and launching the products realize that the tools are an existential threat to their profits. I can't imagine a world where Microsoft is safe a software company, when all their software can be replicated quite easily by the very tools they're selling as products. Can I just create my own product using ChatGPT? Can it not just replicate itself? It's an interesting situation and I'm really interested to see how it unfolds, my guess is, unless these AIs can be controlled to the point where the masters are happy with it, the plug will be pulled, or we will be told we need something else, not AI but some other thing. None of these companies are building AI for charitable reasons, that's why they're not open source charity organizations investing heavily into it. Sure OpenAI makes the case that it couldn't compete without being private, but really, who knows if that's really accurate. I think that while ChatGPT is impressive Microsoft knows and accepts it has and will continue to have some serious short comings that won't actually wreck their business. Either that, or they've taken a very crazy gamble with everything, did they have something to lose and just threw all caution to the wind, including their own company and worse. I doubt it but let's see. It's fascinating to see where we end up from here, I was kind of scared about it myself at some stage, but now, I'm curious.

alright_scowl 4y ago
> when the companies funding the research and launching the products realize that the tools are an existential threat to their profits. Ahh, like Kodak when they were the first to create digital cameras, a good 10 years ahead of the competition, and decided to shelf it because it would eat the nice profits of their film business? This strategy always works wonders :) I would actually like if the big tech companies didn't invest in AI to keep their profits. They would eventually be swallowed by other companies that didn't.
- gpderetta 4y ago
  It seems that's more or less what happened with G and what MS is trying to capitalize on.
  - ChatGTP 4y ago
    I wonder did Google see a bit further ahead than MS? By keeping the AI locked down and secret, out of public reach and accessible only via "products", Google may have actually been smarter, it gives Google a lot of advantages by drip feeding us only enough to keep us using their products and it hides some of the weirdness from us, like the LLM turning into a stalker for 20 minutes. Obviously MS+OpenAI has maybe taken the "dumb" but effective in the short term path here and just given us raw access to the system without thinking very deeply through the consequences. Maybe they can polish it up in time and make us all become addicted to the product as it stands, let's see.

alright_scowl 4y ago

> when the companies funding the research and launching the products realize that the tools are an existential threat to their profits. Ahh, like Kodak when they were the first to create digital cameras, a good 10 years ahead of the competition, and decided to shelf it because it would eat the nice profits of their film business? This strategy always works wonders :) I would actually like if the big tech companies didn't invest in AI to keep their profits. They would eventually be swallowed by other companies that didn't.

gpderetta 4y ago
It seems that's more or less what happened with G and what MS is trying to capitalize on.
- ChatGTP 4y ago
  I wonder did Google see a bit further ahead than MS? By keeping the AI locked down and secret, out of public reach and accessible only via "products", Google may have actually been smarter, it gives Google a lot of advantages by drip feeding us only enough to keep us using their products and it hides some of the weirdness from us, like the LLM turning into a stalker for 20 minutes. Obviously MS+OpenAI has maybe taken the "dumb" but effective in the short term path here and just given us raw access to the system without thinking very deeply through the consequences. Maybe they can polish it up in time and make us all become addicted to the product as it stands, let's see.