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I think OpenAI should just have a single public facing "model" - all these names and versions are confusing. Imagine if Google, during it's accent, had a huge

by ks2048 2y ago

I think OpenAI should just have a single public facing "model" - all these names and versions are confusing. Imagine if Google, during it's accent, had a huge array of search engines with code names and notes about what it's doing behind the scenes. No, you open the page and type in box. If they can make it work better next month, great. (I understand this could not apply to developers or enterprise-type API usage).

johanvts 2y ago
Thats the role of ChatGPT?
- sroussey 2y ago
  Nope. That lets you choose a from seven models right now.
ehfeng 2y ago
Early Google search only provided web links. Google Images, News, Video, Shopping, Maps, Finance used to be their own search boxes. Only later did Google start unifying their search experiences. Yelp suffered greatly in the early 2010s when Google started putting Google Maps listings (and their accompanying reviews) in their search results. OpenAI will eventually unify their products as well.
Deegy 2y ago
If google had to face the reality that distilling their search engine into multiple case-specific engines would have resulted in vastly superior search results, they surely would done (or considered) it. Fortunately for them a monolith search engine was perfectly fine (and likely optimal due to accrued network effects). OpenAI is basically signaling that they need to distill their monolith in order to serve specific segments of the marketplace. They've explicitly said that they're targeting STEM with this one. I think that's a smart choice, the most passionate early adopters of this tech are clearly STEM users. If the tech was such that one monolith model was actually the optimal solution for all use cases, they would just do that. Actually, this is their stated mission: AGI. One monolith that's best at everything is basically what AGI is.

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I think OpenAI should just have a single public facing "model" - all these names and versions are confusing. Imagine if Google, during it's accent, had a huge

by ks2048 2y ago

johanvts 2y ago
Thats the role of ChatGPT?
- sroussey 2y ago
  Nope. That lets you choose a from seven models right now.
ehfeng 2y ago
Early Google search only provided web links. Google Images, News, Video, Shopping, Maps, Finance used to be their own search boxes. Only later did Google start unifying their search experiences. Yelp suffered greatly in the early 2010s when Google started putting Google Maps listings (and their accompanying reviews) in their search results. OpenAI will eventually unify their products as well.
Deegy 2y ago
If google had to face the reality that distilling their search engine into multiple case-specific engines would have resulted in vastly superior search results, they surely would done (or considered) it. Fortunately for them a monolith search engine was perfectly fine (and likely optimal due to accrued network effects). OpenAI is basically signaling that they need to distill their monolith in order to serve specific segments of the marketplace. They've explicitly said that they're targeting STEM with this one. I think that's a smart choice, the most passionate early adopters of this tech are clearly STEM users. If the tech was such that one monolith model was actually the optimal solution for all use cases, they would just do that. Actually, this is their stated mission: AGI. One monolith that's best at everything is basically what AGI is.