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Would have been much more impressed if Google had released something like a super pro version of OpenChat (featured today on the front page of HN) with integrat

by nico 3y ago

Would have been much more impressed if Google had released something like a super pro version of OpenChat (featured today on the front page of HN) with integration to their whole office suite for gathering/crawling/indexing information Google keeps putting out press releases and announcements, without actually releasing anything truly useful or competitive with what it’s already out there And not just worse than GPT4, but worse even than a lot of the open source LLMs/Chats that have come out in the last couple of months/weeks

londons_explore 3y ago
It's hard to know if Google lacks the technical/organisational ability to make a good AI tool, or they have one internally but they lack the hardware to deploy it to all users at Google scale.
- xtracto 3y ago
  Don't worry, now that all their employees will be communicating tightly in their open offices after they RTO, they will create a super high performance AI.
- mediaman 3y ago
  I wonder why they don’t just charge for it. Release a GPT-4 beating model; charge $30/mo. That’s not aligned with their core ad model. But it’s a massive win in demonstrating to the world that they can do it, and it limits the number of people who will actually use it, so the hardware demand becomes less of an issue. Instead they keep issuing free, barely functional models that every day reinforce a perception that they are a third rate player. Perhaps they don’t know how to operate a ‘halo’ product.
  - antifa 3y ago
    > Release a GPT-4 beating model; charge $30/mo. Please no, another subscription? And it's more expensive than ChatGPT? Can I just have Bard (and whatever later versions are eventually good, and whatever later versions are eventually GPT4 competitive) available via GCP with pay per use pricing like the OpenAI API? Also, if I could just use arbitrary (or popular) huggingface models through GCP (or a competitor) that would be awesome.

by nico 3y ago

londons_explore 3y ago

It's hard to know if Google lacks the technical/organisational ability to make a good AI tool, or they have one internally but they lack the hardware to deploy it to all users at Google scale.

xtracto 3y ago
Don't worry, now that all their employees will be communicating tightly in their open offices after they RTO, they will create a super high performance AI.
mediaman 3y ago
I wonder why they don’t just charge for it. Release a GPT-4 beating model; charge $30/mo. That’s not aligned with their core ad model. But it’s a massive win in demonstrating to the world that they can do it, and it limits the number of people who will actually use it, so the hardware demand becomes less of an issue. Instead they keep issuing free, barely functional models that every day reinforce a perception that they are a third rate player. Perhaps they don’t know how to operate a ‘halo’ product.
- antifa 3y ago
  > Release a GPT-4 beating model; charge $30/mo. Please no, another subscription? And it's more expensive than ChatGPT? Can I just have Bard (and whatever later versions are eventually good, and whatever later versions are eventually GPT4 competitive) available via GCP with pay per use pricing like the OpenAI API? Also, if I could just use arbitrary (or popular) huggingface models through GCP (or a competitor) that would be awesome.