But that's how "Open"AI and Hugging Face started, didn't they? So, it's possible. Not easy, and probably not single-handedly. I would say it's much harder then selling another game in app store.
Imo, the real winners here will be Nvidia and Apple, which provide software/hardware coupling for these AI features. And most of these are features, not products. Midjourney is a rare example of a real product, but the quality of generative art if you don't include copyrighted art in the training set is pretty bad, so there's a lot of complications there.
I say "I hope", because time and time again it was shown that companies happily take money from both sides and skew the product to the wishes of the one that pays most, i.e. not me.
And since the results of AI are way less transparent than the appearance of an ad, the user will be screwed. If anything, GTP is a master of undetected product placement.
So in the end it will all be in vain, but for now, the paid version looks better than the free.
You are right. This is a war google has lost.
I wonder if we can have a adversarial process that can do better in the AI domain than google can do it in the domain they use for search?
Can we run search through vicuna making it less or more biased?
I think at lower layers, embeddings vs search network they are probably similar.
It can do things that I have to google first, but would rather offload. Still don't use it regularly, may be it or something like it one day. We are just at the beginning, it's only a few months since we've got something coding.
> Imo, the real winners here will be Nvidia and Apple,
NVidia already is, just recently it's stock jumped +25%+. I expect it do go further up as there is no real strong competition. When robotics pics up NVidia will be a winner again. They invested a lot in hard- and soft-ware.
I think it’s a bit early to declare either of them to be a long-term (commercial) success.
Edit: See Google Duet: https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet...
Who's saving who, though?
> Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft's sprawling research efforts, told Nadella Microsoft's researchers were blown away by the GPT-4's ability to understand conversational language and generate humanlike answers, and they believed it showed sparks of artificial general intelligence.
> Nadella demanding to know how OpenAI had managed to surpass the capabilities of the AI project Microsoft's 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades said, "OpenAI built this with 250 people. Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?"
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-microsoft-swallo...
One team was focused on the result while the other on the process and politics. Just my guess. Now Google and Meta are refocusing their teams as well.