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Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by thethimble »

_4bjt wrote: post #35
narrator wrote: post #20

Could someone please compete with GPT-3? This is getting ridiculous how far ahead OpenAi is getting, despite Google probably having better tech. It seems nobody else has the big brass balls of the OpenAI guys to put a large language model out there and deal with the consequences. Yann LeCun is on Twitter saying this isn't a big deal[1], but where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? [1] https://twitter.co…

> where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? https://blenderbot.ai/

The response quality of BlenderBot is pretty bad compared to ChatGPT

Example question: What’s a covariance matrix?

BlenderBot: Principal component analysis is a popular technique for analyzing large datasets containing a high number of dimensions/features per observation, increasing the interpretability of data while preserving the maximum amount of information, and enabling the visualization of multidimensional data.

ChatGPT: A covariance matrix is a symmetric matrix that describes the covariance between multiple variables in a given dataset. The diagonal elements of the matrix represent the variance of each variable, and the off-diagonal elements represent the covariance between each pair of variables. The covariance matrix is used in multivariate statistics to understand the relationships between different variables and to perform statistical inference and hypothesis testing.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by narrator »

_4bjt wrote: post #35
narrator wrote: post #20

Could someone please compete with GPT-3? This is getting ridiculous how far ahead OpenAi is getting, despite Google probably having better tech. It seems nobody else has the big brass balls of the OpenAI guys to put a large language model out there and deal with the consequences. Yann LeCun is on Twitter saying this isn't a big deal[1], but where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? [1] https://twitter.co…

> where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? https://blenderbot.ai/

I tried it. It can't answer basic encyclopedia facts (e.g How many people died in World War II). It can't do basic programming (e.g write a javascript function to reverse a string). Just goes to show that everyone besides OpenAI are so terrified of these things that they can only release versions that are toys.

Do these companies fear their customers that much? Maybe that's the difference between Microsoft/OpenAI and Facebook/Google. Microsoft sells the LLM to the customer who will be more impressed by the product if it's useful. With Facebook/Google the product uses the LLM. The LLM may make them an unsuitable product if they don't click on an ad after using it.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

#43

Post by swatcoder »

narrator wrote: post #20

Could someone please compete with GPT-3? This is getting ridiculous how far ahead OpenAi is getting, despite Google probably having better tech. It seems nobody else has the big brass balls of the OpenAI guys to put a large language model out there and deal with the consequences. Yann LeCun is on Twitter saying this isn't a big deal[1], but where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? [1] https://twitter.co…

There's no rush. This space is so immature and yet so plainly ripe that there's little benefit to being first. Leapfrogging with matured market insight is where the big winners live.

OpenAI will have a secure home with Microsoft, but aren't positioned to run away with anything anytime soon. They're at least as likely to be the Altavista to Google Search, the Napster to Spotify, the MySpace to Facebook, etc

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by pithon »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #31
kornhole wrote: post #10

An AI listening in and evaluating all my meetings? No thanks. I have now switched all meetings with my reports to my Nextcloud Talk server.

> An AI listening in and evaluating all my meetings? How is that different than a co-worker/manager/HR?

One is a human, the other is some AI hoovering up everything I say an adding it to their database which can be used in every other instance of Teams in the world. I'd say that's a meaningful difference.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by [deleted] »

userbinator wrote: post #39

With more than 400 new features and improvements added to Microsoft Teams last year Unfortunately, the only things I've seen are trivial and IMHO entirely unnecessary changes like "change the icons" or "add more useless whitespace", or something that was already widespread and possible decades ago like "now we have multiple windows". If that's what they thought were "features and improvements", it explains why Teams…

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Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

#46

Post by Jensson »

jakear wrote: post #40
narrator wrote: post #20

Could someone please compete with GPT-3? This is getting ridiculous how far ahead OpenAi is getting, despite Google probably having better tech. It seems nobody else has the big brass balls of the OpenAI guys to put a large language model out there and deal with the consequences. Yann LeCun is on Twitter saying this isn't a big deal[1], but where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? [1] https://twitter.co…

> despite Google probably having better tech What makes you so sure? Microsoft already has a fully productized LLM that people pay for and has in turn provided real value to both users and the company (copilot). To assert that some other company has a better one but it's... not ready yet? is odd. I can't think of the last time Google made a new product. New as in "not a reimplementation of what another company alread…

You can buy flight tickets from Google, that is a relatively new product even if you buy them from the search result. So Google search is good at adding new products that are context sensitive to your query, I don't see why they couldn't make such things with a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by [deleted] »

_4bjt wrote: post #35
narrator wrote: post #20

Could someone please compete with GPT-3? This is getting ridiculous how far ahead OpenAi is getting, despite Google probably having better tech. It seems nobody else has the big brass balls of the OpenAI guys to put a large language model out there and deal with the consequences. Yann LeCun is on Twitter saying this isn't a big deal[1], but where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? [1] https://twitter.co…

> where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? https://blenderbot.ai/

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Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

#48

Post by samplatt »

jodrellblank wrote: post #32
earleybird wrote: post #15

Great, now I have to read a bots meeting notes to confirm "that's what I meant".

Teams has had transcription for ages, and the transcription indexed into your company's M365 search: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-recor...

Yeah, but if you don't have the standard Midwestern Accent, you're fucked. As an Australian I'd estimate that ~70% of everything has an error in the transcription.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by jakear »

Jensson wrote: post #46
jakear wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> despite Google probably having better tech What makes you so sure? Microsoft already has a fully productized LLM that people pay for and has in turn provided real value to both users and the company (copilot). To assert that some other company has a better one but it's... not ready yet? is odd. I can't think of the last time Google made a new product. New as in "not a reimplementation of what another company alread…

You can buy flight tickets from Google, that is a relatively new product even if you buy them from the search result. So Google search is good at adding new products that are context sensitive to your query, I don't see why they couldn't make such things with a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers.

> a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers

And kill their golden goose? Google makes more money the longer you spend on their ad-ridden search result pages. I don't doubt they'll make a question answering bot, but the real question is how they fund it (see edit above for my guess).

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

#50

Post by Jensson »

jakear wrote: post #49
Jensson wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy flight tickets from Google, that is a relatively new product even if you buy them from the search result. So Google search is good at adding new products that are context sensitive to your query, I don't see why they couldn't make such things with a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers.

> a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers And kill their golden goose? Google makes more money the longer you spend on their ad-ridden search result pages. I don't doubt they'll make a question answering bot, but the real question is how they fund it (see edit above for my guess).

> Google makes more money the longer you spend on their ad-ridden search result pages.

So why not keep people there by having an engaging chat bot? Could even refresh and add new context sensitive ads every time you ask something new.

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