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Mapmaker51 t1_jc9h4gx wrote

Reply to comment by littleMAS in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

Google's model is basically in competition with GPT 3/3.5 not GPT 4

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whothewildonesare t1_jcau713 wrote

How come Google is so lacking with AI compared to smaller organisations like OpenAI 🤔

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almightygarlicdoggo t1_jcawsvl wrote

Because the entirety of Google doesn't work in LaMDA. It's likely that both companies assign a similar number of employees and similar funds to their respective AI. Also don't forget that OpenAI receives a huge amount of money from Microsoft. And in addition to that, Google announced LaMDA in 2021, when OpenAI had already years in development in language models.

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whothewildonesare t1_jcbfzsz wrote

ok makes sense thanks

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IAmTaka_VG t1_jcfexr6 wrote

Keep in mind as well that Google was completely blindsided by this whole event. Sundar is a horrible CEO and this never should have happened. This might finally be the thing that kicks him, IMO he should already be fired but Google of all companies missing the boat on LLM is absolutely insane to me.

So Google can pretend it's just taking it's time but the reality is they've pulled thousands of developers from other projects to race Bard and Lamda to the finish line.

OpenAI and Microsoft have been working this apparently for over 5 years. Google can only go so fast to catch up and I have doubts their language models are as sophisticated as openai's.

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dwarfarchist9001 t1_jce8cs6 wrote

Because Google keeps canceling projects and refusing to release products. Google invented the concept of transformers which is what the T in GPT stands for and then never did anything with it for years. Just last week Google published their PaLM-E paper in which they re-trained their PaLM LLM to be multimodal including the ability to control robots. Before the paper was even published Google did what they usually do with successful projects and shut down the Everyday Robots team that developed it.

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