On: Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors ...

[Salgat]

The difference is that people have been using ChatGPT for months. It doesn't have as much to prove as Bard, which we know nothing about.

[labrador → Salgat]

Right, and I think the expectation was the Google had something much better. When they showed they didn't... A lot of "I am disappoint"

[908B64B197 → labrador]

It pretty much collapsed the narrative that Microsoft was behind in AI.

[foobazgt → 908B64B197]

How does Microsoft integrating OpenAI's software demonstrate its own AI prowess?

[Salgat → foobazgt]

Microsoft has been a billion dollar investor of OpenAI since 2019. They also exclusively licensed GPT-3 several years ago.

[foobazgt → Salgat]

That doesn't suggest any competence in AI. In contrast, compare to the work that has come directly out of both Google and Meta.

[Salgat → foobazgt]

In the past decade Google has acquired 5 Artificial Intelligence companies, including DeepMind. They hired folks like Geoffrey Hinton by acquiring his company in order to have him lead Google Brain. This is just the nature of how these companies build their talent.

[foobazgt → Salgat]

Investing in a company and/or integrating with its technology is not the same as acquiring it. For example, it's quite clear that AI is a major part of Google's strategy from the personnel that they have working on it (e.g. Jeff Dean) to the actual results they deliver, both in research and products. These come directly from their full time employees, not partners or investments. Microsoft is not particularly noteworthy in the field.

[908B64B197 → foobazgt]

> For example, it's quite clear that AI is a major part of Google's strategy from the personnel that they have working on it (e.g. Jeff Dean) to the actual results they deliver

That makes the 1B investment Microsoft made... a minor part of their strategy?

> Microsoft is not particularly noteworthy in the field.

And yet it seems Google is playing catchup.

[foobazgt → 908B64B197]

Browse reddit.com/r/bing for a bit. There's a clear reason why Google has been slow-walking release of its better LLM on one hand, while continuously releasing ML-based improvements across their entire product suite on the other.

[yieldcrv → labrador]

yeah and Google investors require an illusion of competence of mysterious rocket science. When that illusion drops they get scared.

Microsoft investors have more level expectations, there is no luster for Microsoft, they're pleased.