MrMarriott t1_j8wavws wrote on February 17, 2023 at 12:21 PM

Reply to comment by opknorrsk in Google CEO Sundar Pichai asks employees to put two to four hours into helping to improve and 'dogfood' its Bard chatbot by tester989chromeos

ChatGPT is literally based on research and work that Google did. Google did the innovative work but OpenAI did a way better job of productizing the work.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-network.html

extropia t1_j8x3osi wrote on February 17, 2023 at 4:01 PM

"Second mouse gets the cheese".

FreezingRobot t1_j8xgytp wrote on February 17, 2023 at 5:25 PM

Yes, but this all reminds me of the "Xerox invented the GUI" stuff. It's not sure it makes who invents what, it matters who can go to market with it.

Google has been treading water for years, living off stuff they already made and people depend on. When they stop depending on it and/or it gets regulated out of existence, they're screwed.

MrMarriott t1_j8xxxmi wrote on February 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM

That is a fair analogy, but my comment was in response to the claim Google was trying to catch rather than innovating, which I thought was weird since innovation isn't Google's problem, execution and strategy are.

nu1stunna t1_j8yke0v wrote on February 17, 2023 at 9:40 PM

I’ve taken chatgpt for a spin and was underwhelmed by the results. It’s possible that I’m not using it “right” but it seems very limited. What you can and can’t ask from it is hardcoded in and it’s really shitty. They are so afraid of being sued, that they won’t allow you to prompt it to criticize religious or government figures, predict sports outcomes, or anything that can be seen as “controversial “. I find that pretty ridiculous. It’s a free AI service, not some expert who is giving advice for money.

SeaweedSorcerer t1_j8yzwdc wrote on February 17, 2023 at 11:30 PM

I think that’s the point. It’s meant to be a demonstration of their capabilities, basically an advertisement, to entice companies to buy their AI products. It’s not a product in its own. Corporations are pretty much always careful to keep their ads inoffensive. Especially when AI chat bots have a history of being taken down within a matter of days when they go off the rails.

Valiantheart t1_j926jmu wrote on February 18, 2023 at 5:47 PM

People are bitching about its biases when returning results too. I've not used it myself, but don't find that surprising.

yungplantdad t1_j8xcio0 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 4:57 PM

Sure, and all of googles search engine revolves around the work of Markhov. They may have done the research, but their product certainly looks less mature.