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I also thought it was curious. There is a wide range of possibilities for this. My favorite hypothesis is that OpenAI was navigating the unknown open sea tryin
by m_0x 3y ago
I also thought it was curious. There is a wide range of possibilities for this.
My favorite hypothesis is that OpenAI was navigating the unknown open sea trying to answer the question "Is it possible to achieve this?" without knowing if they would ever find a new land.
The rest of them already know the answer is "Yes it is" so it's not an unknown open sea anymore with a dubious destination. They know it's possible, it's just a matter of money and time. They probably hired whatever engineer was available, and they paid tons of money to come up with a competitive product.
- zeven7 3y agoMy own theory is Google had this earlier but couldn't figure out a way to make money from it. I think they felt threatened by it and didn't release what they had.
- wmf 3y agoIt's not a theory. Google has been pretty open about what models they have (e.g. PaLM was before GPT-4); they just didn't let anyone use them.
- sct202 3y agoThere was a Google engineer last summer who leaked a whole giant chat transcript with one of their LLMs that was pretty impressive before ChatGPT went opened up at the end of the year.