That makes no sense.
What makes much more sense -- especially if you listen to his interviews -- is that Sam Altman doesn't think you can be trusted with the power of GPT-4 via an API unless it has first been aligned to death.
And having such a big anchor tenant, its reasonable that you would prioritize them if GPUs are in short supply.
Yeah, but Microsoft already gets 75% of the profits OpenAI makes, it's not the same price for them as the rest of us.
It is SO amazing that we have such a driving force (LLMs/consumer-AI) for this (instead of stupid cryptocurrencies mining or high-performance gaming). This should drive innovation pretty strongly and I am sure the next "leap" in this regard (processing hardware) will put technology in a completely different level.
So they open things carefully, pull back when necessary like when they limited use of the public GPT-4 version of ChatGPT. That doesn’t seem too unreasonable. And yes sure, some amount of it might be attempts to manufacture scarcity to increase the hype. It’s an old tactic and hardly comparable to Soviet Russia.
If there's not enough GPUs at a certain price point, raise prices. Then lower prices later when GPUs become available.
They did it with GPT 3.5, so why not GPT 4?
I don’t see why such a thing should be embarrassing. Or, at least no more so than being acute or obtuse. Just as long as nothing is askew.
"Lick my boots, in person, and you can be one of the privileged few" is very much the behaviour of a Communist dictatorship, not a capitalist corporation.
I can spin up an Azure VM right now in almost any country I choose... except China. That's the only one where I have to beg the government for permission.
I know exactly how this works.
When someone has power, they will use it. In small, petty ways, or big “do me favours for access” ways.
It's both, and more besides. Veblen goods are absolutely a thing in capitalism.
Not that "giving people access to GPT 4 APIs because they attended a conference" should be controversial enough to even get worked up about, let alone to compare to a dictatorship, but Google did much the same at developer conferences: I/O 2012 swag list included a Galaxy Nexus, a Nexus 7, a Nexus Q, and a Chromebox.
If we guesstimate that every 100 customers needs 1 NVIDIA GPU (completely random guess), then that means OpenAI needs to buy more GPUs for every 100 new customers using GPT-4. The problem is there's a GPU shortage so it's hard to add more GPUs by just throwing money at the problem.
https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/ask-nvidia-ceo...
Infrastructure.
> It's like they took a leaf from Google's "how to guarantee the failure of a new product" marketing.
Yeah, an infamous guaranteed failure: GPT-4. (canned laughter)
Wait for what!? Christmas? When we can open our presents and have a GPT 4 inside?
It's like they took a leaf from Google's "how to guarantee the failure of a new product" marketing. That is: restrict access, ensuring that to word-of-mouth marketing can't possibly work because none of your friends are allowed to try the product.
The announcement here is "general availability" of the GPT-4 model...
...but not the 32K context model. Not the multi-modal version with image input. No fine-tuning. Only one model (chat).
As of today, I can only access GPT 3.5 via Azure Open AI service and the Open AI API account that I have.
What's the point of all these arbitrary restrictions on who can access what model!?
I can use GPT 4 via Chat, but not an API. I can use an enhanced version of Dall-E via Bing Image Creator, but not the OpenAI API. Some vendors that have been blessed by the Great and Benevolent Sam Altman have access to GPT-4 32K, the rest of us don't.
Sell the product, not the access to it.
Don't be like the Soviet Union, where you had to "know someone" to get access.