> OpenAI will avoid competing with their customers — other than with ChatGPT. Quite a few developers said they were nervous about building with the OpenAI APIs when OpenAI might end up releasing products that are competitive to them. Sam said that OpenAI would not release more products beyond ChatGPT. He said there was a history of great platform companies having a killer app and that ChatGPT would allow them to make the APIs better by being customers of their own product. The vision for ChatGPT is to be a super smart assistant for work but there will be a lot of other GPT use-cases that OpenAI won’t touch.
Can anyone elaborate on this? This is a big issue for me.
Technically he can claim that OpenAI will not release competing products while Microsoft plugs AI into everything.
Microsoft just announced at Build 2023 that they'll have OpenAI tech integrated with: Windows, Bing, Outlook, Word, Teams, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Fabric, Dynamics, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Logic Apps. I probably missed a bunch.
Very soon now, everything Microsoft sells will have OpenAI integration.
Unless you're selling a niche product too small for Microsoft to bother with, you're competing directly against OpenAI.
Oh, and to top it off: Microsoft can use GPT 4 all they want, via API access. Third parties have to beg and plead to get rate-limited access. That access can be withdrawn at any time if you're doing something unsafe to OpenAI's profit margins.
It's the only such reference I could think of that others might recognise.
I'm reading the web serial Pact right now, where the main character can lie but it costs him dearly each time: https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/
I also really enjoyed the ending of the Confederation Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton, which revolved around the inability of the Tyrathca race to tell lies.
PS: Just for laughs, I used to practice talking like an Aes Sedai, never telling an outright lie while actively deceiving people. It's an interesting skill to acquire and surprisingly easy. Once you learn how to do it, you'll never see a press conference or a political speech the same way ever again.
I think we have very similar tastes. I haven't read Pact yet, but I'm a huge fan of Worm (I consider it one of my top 5 favorite works of fiction).
I also haven't read Confederation, but I have read a different work for Hamilton (The Commonwealth Saga). I actually thought it was a bit too long, but it's one of the series I think about most often (so many great ideas and characters in it).
Can anyone elaborate on this? This is a big issue for me.