I realize part of why Sam Altman feels so important in OpenAI is because he invited everyone to come along. You can build something pretty close to chat.openai.com on the APIs, and their APIs continue to grow as their product grows. I think that's closely related to his leadership.
This Inflection announcement feels kind of like your neighbor showing you his cool new Jaguar. Can I even take it for a test drive? Well, no... but he'll take me out in a drive in a while, you betcha. "Yeah, cool model you have there," but I'm eyeing the exit.
This is the other side of the "commercial vs mission" argument. Doing commercial activity is the only way to be inclusive. Except open source... but even there it's not a clear call. And writing papers touting your achievements is... kind of narcissistic?
Despite all the complaining about OpenAI not being open, I've been able to do amazing things with their broad API access.
I feel fortunate to have access to it at all, knowing how much it has cost to build out and what it's capable of (whether we're talking about GPT 3.5, Dalle3, GPT 4, Whisper, GPTs etc).
I've been waiting for GPT 4 to catch up in time so I can talk to it about Godot 4's latest capabilities. Thanks to GPTs I've just gone ahead and started building my own GPT for that purpose. It's pretty wonderful what OpenAI has made accessible and possible thus far.
This Inflection announcement feels kind of like your neighbor showing you his cool new Jaguar. Can I even take it for a test drive? Well, no... but he'll take me out in a drive in a while, you betcha. "Yeah, cool model you have there," but I'm eyeing the exit.
This is the other side of the "commercial vs mission" argument. Doing commercial activity is the only way to be inclusive. Except open source... but even there it's not a clear call. And writing papers touting your achievements is... kind of narcissistic?