Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha...
by enigmurl on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:02PM
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You could argue that for any service provider then. Why is Intel selling CPUs when it could be making profit from the cloud data centers themselves?
Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha...
by ben_w on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:43PM
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It seems like you think I'm accusing OpenAI of being the grifters — I'm not; OpenAI are very open and clear about the limitations of their models.
The grifters say things like "buy my guide to learn how to use ChatGPT to write a book for you", overselling the capabilities of ChatGPT by a large margin.
Anytime someone says "buy my guide to becoming rich", that should set off warning signs. I've only heard it being true once ever, but even that might just be a case of a random dice roll we wouldn't have heard about if it had lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual
That said, one obvious difference between OpenAI and Intel is that OpenAI has full control of both the model and all the hardware the model is running on.
Fair.
I'm definitely big on where it will be in the future (Iain M. Banks quote about Minds being the next thing to gods and on the other side), but there are a lot of grifters who are easy to spot with the following thought experiment:
If ChatGPT could actually, to use an example I've seen, "write a best selling novel", why is OpenAI selling you access to the API instead of writing all those books and selling them directly?