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I get it, but the launches are always about what you can now do then slowly followed with "some partners can register interest". For example for palm/bard this

by IanCal 3y ago

I get it, but the launches are always about what you can now do then slowly followed with "some partners can register interest". For example for palm/bard this was my experience: "Hey we have this amazing LLM!" "Great, given you are a company can I pay you money above your costs for this service?" "No but you can register for updates about when the wait-list will open" They announced cool features for Google docs as well that I can't use. Some of the things I've seen announced were maybe a year ago and still nothing. Just a wait-list or less.

cloudking 3y ago
Sure, but look at Bard it was on wait-list for what 3 months? Now it's available in 180 countries... for free. Not everything gets launched because sometimes they find out in that testing period that they got it wrong.
- IanCal 3y ago
  After the big hype of it yes. And the models are not really available, they've got a little playground for some unspecified model.
  - verdverm 3y ago
    There are models available in GCP under Vertex AI category, I'm using the API to access them.
    - IanCal 3y ago
      Oh that's great. Curious what the model sizes are but then to be fair gpt4 isn't publicly saying that either. Side smaller complaint - whats the point in these wait-lists if they never tell me when stuff actually launched.
      - verdverm 3y ago
        These were available right at announcement time and not wait listed, I was using them while the keynote was still going on. The lists are for other products & wrappers around the foundational models. I haven't seen otter or unicorn models, nor can I find tune them yet.
    - ralusek 3y ago
      Palm 2 is available?
      - verdverm 3y ago
        yes, it's powering Bard and available as chat-bison@001 in GCP It comes in 4 sizes, I've only seen two so far https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/model-garden https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/model-garden
  - ukuina 3y ago
    And when it underperforms relative to expectations, they claim it's not running the best model they have.
espadrine 3y ago
Looking back at the promises made at I/O 2022, most of the products were released timely (for instance, Docs auto-summary, an AI feature, came out in March for Workspace), although some could be in a better spot: - Immersive mode in Maps (also AI, using NeRF) has only recently added just 5 cities, - The screenshot-then-Multisearch Near Me is technically shipped, but it seems super-rough; I screenshot my keyboard and it suggested a specific brand of pasta across nearby supermarkets, - I am still waitlisted for access to LaMDA through the AI test kitchen (and given this year’s I/O, things seem to take a different direction). There is no question that ChatGPT’s release in particular went by a more successful playbook comparatively.

by IanCal 3y ago

cloudking 3y ago

Sure, but look at Bard it was on wait-list for what 3 months? Now it's available in 180 countries... for free. Not everything gets launched because sometimes they find out in that testing period that they got it wrong.

IanCal 3y ago
After the big hype of it yes. And the models are not really available, they've got a little playground for some unspecified model.
- verdverm 3y ago
  There are models available in GCP under Vertex AI category, I'm using the API to access them.
  - IanCal 3y ago
    Oh that's great. Curious what the model sizes are but then to be fair gpt4 isn't publicly saying that either. Side smaller complaint - whats the point in these wait-lists if they never tell me when stuff actually launched.
    - verdverm 3y ago
      These were available right at announcement time and not wait listed, I was using them while the keynote was still going on. The lists are for other products & wrappers around the foundational models. I haven't seen otter or unicorn models, nor can I find tune them yet.
  - ralusek 3y ago
    Palm 2 is available?
    - verdverm 3y ago
      yes, it's powering Bard and available as chat-bison@001 in GCP It comes in 4 sizes, I've only seen two so far https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/model-garden https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/model-garden
- ukuina 3y ago
  And when it underperforms relative to expectations, they claim it's not running the best model they have.

espadrine 3y ago

Looking back at the promises made at I/O 2022, most of the products were released timely (for instance, Docs auto-summary, an AI feature, came out in March for Workspace), although some could be in a better spot: - Immersive mode in Maps (also AI, using NeRF) has only recently added just 5 cities, - The screenshot-then-Multisearch Near Me is technically shipped, but it seems super-rough; I screenshot my keyboard and it suggested a specific brand of pasta across nearby supermarkets, - I am still waitlisted for access to LaMDA through the AI test kitchen (and given this year’s I/O, things seem to take a different direction). There is no question that ChatGPT’s release in particular went by a more successful playbook comparatively.