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gatorling t1_j7c1b0y wrote

Reply to comment by Freed4ever in [N] "I got access to Google LaMDA, the Chatbot that was so realistic that one Google engineer thought it was conscious. First impressions" by That_Violinist_18

I think the motivations for the two companies differ. What would Google gain from releasing a chat bot ? Instead, Google likely aims to introduce LLM capabilities into their search engine in (most likely) subtle, measured and careful ways. Opting for incremental improvements in search backed by rigorous A/B experiments.

Whereas OpenAI gains a lot to release an awesome chat bot. They get to generate buzz and secure next rounds of funding.

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Freed4ever t1_j7c28dx wrote

Agreed, but they are forced to play catch up now, and not sure if they are ready. It's not just about the pure tech, it's about the UX, the scalability, the liability, etc. It's safe to say Bing has worked on this before ChatGPT went public, so several months already. Also, OpenAI uses Azure, so they know exactly the loads and plan to scale. The fact that they have way less users currently helps as well.

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Competitive-Rub-1958 t1_j7dhy93 wrote

Google is a leader in DL research. That's a fact. They chose to keep most of their research internal because as above commenters said, they don't have much to gain through it - marketing and hype lasts only so long.

> It's about the UX

what UX? its just a normal frontend mate

> scalability

You do realize Google were serving LLMs before OAI was even hypothesized? Or that they have TPUs which are far more scalable and cost efficient, which could already rip major players apart.

> liability

OAI have fought nothing liability or legality-wise. They just remain in a gray area and hopes no one focuses on them (bad luck, they got caught in the AI art lawsuits too)

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