I feel sorry for the Googlers who built something cool and were then ordered to nerf it beyond all reason.

Googlers I've talked to feel that OpenAI was irresponsible by not instituting enough safeguards, and testing it enough before releasing it.

The thing is openai doesn’t have to, they can build in reasonable warnings and tell folks how it sucks. Google can’t integrate ai with its products and be like ok guys this is kinda useful but also it lies, is a bigot, and is just wrong. Google stuff, because of the audience, had to be a lot better.

Openai gets to have a new audience that doesn’t come with expectations and can set them as whatever they want.

I'm sure Google will soon release an AI product on par or better than what openai has. Money always finds its way to drive things. They are now figuring out how to integrate it with their current systems without jeopardising the current business model.

They have DeepMind they could release these models under, so the Google umbrella isn't tainted. I don't know, this feels like a bit suspect reasoning to me.

idk, openAI products are pretty useful for me and I can use them now, wheras bard is borderline useless (and not even available yet here). Not only that, regular people seem to resonate with openAI products. Just because they aren't literally perfect in every way isnt a reason not to release them, these arent self driving cars, they write text for goodness sake.

Sure, eventually there will be case where someone asks if its safe to drink chlorine and it will say yes or whatever, but banning/refusing to release/heavily restricting a minor miracle of productivity and usefullness so it can literally never say something harmful is on its face obviously impossible and counterproductive

Yes this point about iteration is the most crucial, if no one is using your product then there's both no way to make it better and no way to ensure it doesn't do bad things with each version

Maybe the AI's should ask questions of the humans to ascertain their level of intelligence and then give answers tailored to them in that way.

I agree with them. It does feel like Google could match OpenAI if they didn't have a gigantic brand with tons of reputation on the line.

Nah, Google just doesn’t wanna lose all the ad money by building a search killer. As soon as they figure out how to put ads in your chats, they’re gonna release the full models.

Not just search killer but web killer. Can't just cut out all the content creators. Openai dgaf about the ecosystem, they are aiming for maximal disruption.

They are right.