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this is the argument i continue to have with people. first mover isnt always an advantage - i think openai will be sold or pennies on these dollars someday (nex
by misiti3780 9mo ago
this is the argument i continue to have with people. first mover isnt always an advantage - i think openai will be sold or pennies on these dollars someday (next 5 years after they run out of funding).
Google has data, TPUs, and a shitload of cash to burn
- tester756 9mo ago>first mover isnt always an advantage but in this case it is, ChatGPT name is really, really strong, it's like "just google it" instead of "just search the web"
- rchaud 9mo agoName recognition only gets you so far. "Just Google it" happened because Google was better than Hotbot/Altavista/Yahoo! etc by orders of magnitude. Nobody even bothered to launch a competing search engine in the 2000s because of this (until Microsoft w/ Bing in 2009). There is no such parallel with ChatGPT; Google, Bing, even DuckDuckGo has AI search. First mover advantage matters only if it has long-lasting network effects. American schools are run on Chromebooks and Google Docs/Slides, but these have no penetration in enterprise, as college students have been discovering when they enter their first jobs.
- catdog 9mo agoMaybe but it's far from profitable. People largely don't want to pay for it either.
- tester756 9mo agoWho cares? profitability is not the most important thing at every stage of the product
- misiti3780 9mo agoAltman is a horrible CEO also, which wont help. He table-side manners are horrible.
- randomNumber7 9mo agoI'm not sure because google was by far the best search engine for a long time in the early 2000s and there are a lot of models close to what openai has right now.