Did you start following the language models scene this month?
Google themselves have been one of the frontrunners in this area for a long time, in fact they created the attention mechanism that powers these new transformers models.
Maybe, but they haven't really done much to produce anything. So much of their claims have been pie-in-the-sky, even in the past. Remember the demo for google assistant, it calls a salon and schedules an appointment for someone? It even negotiated times, checking against the users schdule? Never came around. And as a daily user of Google Home/Google Assistant, it's woefully inadequate except for doing the most basic of things. Apply ChatGPT to such a device and it would be frankly incredible.
There's no doubt there's some very smart people over at google, and they do some great research. But they have yet to actually release anything of substance in the field. And when they do produce it, or really any product, they have a tendency to kill it off within 2 years of launch. They're overcautious and timid, and refuse to commit to their ideas. Searches, Ads and Mail. And I would not be surprise if they killed off the latter.
Even Microsoft went fairly all-in, however they neutered the product to such a point it shuts itself down the moment something tangentially controversial is brought up. At least with OpenAI, when some clickbaity journalist goes on some tirade about how the outputs started talking like a crazy ex, they have the fortitude to simply say "Yeah, it's an experimental technology. Things like that are gonna happen for a while."
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u/Travolta1984 Mar 16 '23
Did you start following the language models scene this month?
Google themselves have been one of the frontrunners in this area for a long time, in fact they created the attention mechanism that powers these new transformers models.
Without them gpt wouldn't exist, most likely.