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It's interesting, but if you look at the history of technology, it's rarely the 1st mover that wins. I'm not sure if Bard will be the "winner" (or if there will
by endisneigh 4y ago
It's interesting, but if you look at the history of technology, it's rarely the 1st mover that wins. I'm not sure if Bard will be the "winner" (or if there will even be a single canonical winner), but the idea that you can be "late" to this when LLMs are just getting started is kind of funny.
Given that most people don't read NYTs, let alone have heard of OpenAI or ChatGPT, this will mark the first true exposure to language models for many Americans and Britons. fun times ahead
- dangond 4y agoIt's definitely still early in the market, people are mostly still experimenting with LLMs rather than being committed to any specific provider. Long-term it won't matter if Google is a few weeks or months behind OpenAI if they can make a successful competitor.
- dingclancy 4y agoIt is not just LLM though. Google is big tech and they have to fend off AI browsers, AI image generation, Github Co-Pilot, Office 365 with LLM, Notion AI. Chatbots is just one narrow product. So far they have an inferior chatbot layer to their "much better" LLM, as an experimental beta product, and we are just talking about a chatbot product. It comes down to are they able to offer their models so that startups can start building on it while also showing that they can integrate it in all their products, and will the devs use it? By the time they release their APIs they will be so much behind in network effect , and they are so worried about Google Search being their main revenue driver that they are being attacked on all fronts while they are only worried about Search for now.