[ghoomketu]

I find it interesting that GPT-3 was available as an API for more than a year without generating this much excitement.

It wasn't until chatgpt was released that we fully grasped the potential of AI, leading to a surge in innovation every week.

Regardless of any criticisms, it's undeniable that OpenAi played a significant role in accelerating the progress and acceptance of AI in our daily lives.

[kat_rebelo]

there are reports that some openai employees initially learned about the release of the chatgpt interface via twitter. this move appears to have been orchestrated from on high by sam altman, who, despite his carefully curated public image, is not a scientist or researcher and holds no academic credentials at all, let alone any in the fields of computer science, machine learning, or linguistics. he is a prep-school educated kid who washed out of a comp sci degree at stanford that managed to pawn that off into being a VC who serves on the board of startups. in short, he is the exact kind of business guy this article is critiquing.

the release and viral adoption of chatgpt drove altman's personal profile and the valuation of the company he runs into the stratosphere, but, to many of the more sober/cynical minded of people who have been doing this kind of research for years (myself included), it appears to be at the cost of dropping a poorly understood (by the general public) technology with a high potential for abuse by multitude of different types of bad actors onto the general public with little or no plan for how to manage/mitigate the repercussions on the rest of society.

so yes, did openai play a "a significant role in accelerating the progress and acceptance of AI in our daily lives"... yes, but to many, that is not a good thing. we are only just beginning to scratch the surface of what this tech's impact will be on society as a whole. my guess is that most people with scientific / engineering backgrounds would have preferred a more incremental and controlled release process into broader adoption. instead, it seems like just another cynical move by another silicon valley pencil pusher relentlessly seeking to enrich themselves while accelerating the pace at which the billions of other people on this planet need to deal with downstream consequences of this action.