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SVP: “Hey, we’re rapidly falling behind and turning into a textbook example of innovators dilemma, what should we do?” Sundar: “one word: waitlist”
by nr2x 3y ago
SVP: “Hey, we’re rapidly falling behind and turning into a textbook example of innovators dilemma, what should we do?”
Sundar: “one word: waitlist”
- jiggawatts 3y agoWaitlists are magic at destroying any chance of word-of-mouth helping spread a product. “Hey Bob, try out this new Bard thing!” “I can’t, there’s a wait list.” “Never mind then, you can just use ChatGPT instead.” PS: it doesn’t fill me with confidence that Azure enabled OpenAI to scale to 10M users in record time, but a GCP can’t even scrape together enough compute to avoid a wait list on something comparable to LLMs hobbyists now run on their phones.
- bippihippi1 3y agowhat is the monetization idea for each? my guess is google doesn't need the data as much as a new competitor would. they are in the growth phase.
- jiggawatts 3y agoIt appears that a large part of OpenAI's success is the large volume of human feedback reinforcement learning that they've used to tune their models. The more feedback they get, the better the model becomes. It's a bit like Tesla having an advantage developing self-driving AI models by having hundreds of thousands of their cars on the road ("the fleet") gather data about rare events for training the model.
- nr2x 3y agoThat was a brutal “PS”, lol.
- browningstreet 3y agoI got my waitlist acceptance today. I requested it late last week.