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But is that because of rapid breakthroughs in tech, or in marketing? GPT 3 is nearly three years old at this point, and was pretty capable at generating text.
by wongarsu 4y ago
But is that because of rapid breakthroughs in tech, or in marketing?
GPT 3 is nearly three years old at this point, and was pretty capable at generating text. GPT 3.5 brought substantial improvements, but is also over a year old. ChatGPT is much newer, but mostly remarkable for the better interface, the extensive "safety" efforts, and for being free (as in beer) and immediately accessible without waitlist and application process. Actual text generated by it isn't much different from GPT 3.5, especially for the type of longform content you hire a $80/h writer for. ChatGPT was just launched in a way that allows people to easily experiment and create hype.
- pixl97 4y agoI'd like you to look at what you just typed in reference to a product like the iPhone that turned Apple into a trillion dollar company. There were smartphones before the iPhone, but the iPhone redefined the market and all phones after that point use it as the reference.
- randomdata 4y agoPeople who made money with their phone had fully adopted Blackberry devices long before the iPhone came around. It may not have been as fun or slick, but when $80/hr. was on the line you weren't exactly going to wait around until something better showed up like the average consumer could. The parent is right. The success of ChatGPT in business is that it brought awareness of the capabilities of GPT that OpenAI struggled to communicate beforehand. It was a breakthrough in marketing, less so a breakthrough in tech.
- pixl97 4y agoEngineers rarely become billionaires, salespeople do. You could have the best most magic product on earth and sell one of them versus the person that puts it in a pretty box and lets grandma use it easily. This is something that many people on HN seemingly have to relearn in every big innovation that comes out.