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It's used in all sorts of advanced models, like LLMs and image generators. They lie at the heart of so called foundation models . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_models
Right, but what is their "world impact"?
They create immense economic value and increase productivity.
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Right, but what is their "world impact"?
That of allowing people to generate, synthesize, and transform all major modalities of media, from text, to audio and video, for peanuts, instantly. They create immense economic value and increase productivity.
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Very much disagree. Google clearly saw the potential of this as well, and did a ton of work and created a lot of leading models based on this. The big difference between Google and OpenAI is that Google "had a ton more to lose" so to speak and went forward much more cautiously. See all the hullaballoo they had to deal with e.g. with their "Ethical AI" group and the Timnit Gebru fiasco, as well as cases like where tha…
Very sensible comment, agree with it. I still think that the big cos. (Google, MS, Oracle, ...) will win the AI race in the medium/long term as they have a huge momentum behind them, so they didn't really "miss" anything. ChatGPT is much better than Google Search, though!
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That of allowing people to generate, synthesize, and transform all major modalities of media, from text, to audio and video, for peanuts, instantly. They create immense economic value and increase productivity.
It's deniable right now. Future looks bright for them, but impact _now_ is more smoke than actual effect.
So atm they just sell hype, and not much more.