GPT-3 launched three years ago, but few believed meaningful AI progress was going to happen. It's really only been a little bit over two months that I think this has had mainstream attention and interest. With any new technology, you don't perfectly forecast all of the issues and mitigations,. But if you run a very tight feedback loop at the rate things are evolving, we can get to very solid products very fast.
Microsoft’s release of a ChatGPT-powered Bing signifies a new era in search. Then, a disastrous preview of Bard — Google’s answer to ChatGPT — caused the company’s stocks to slide 7 percent. The A.I. arms race is on.
Plus: What “Nothing, Forever,” the 24/7, A.I.-generated “Seinfeld” parody, says about bias in A.I.
On today’s episode:
- Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI.
- Kevin Scott is the chief technology officer of Microsoft.
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