Can anyone explain to me the mechanism by which investing $$$ allows Microsoft to gain some exclusive access to GPT which other firms don't get?

Someone being excited != Monetizable

I always remember the “Looks like you’re working on a suicide note, I can help!” picture.

Maybe they wanted to capitalise on the name. ChatGPT has become synonymous to conversational language models in non tech circles, both in corporate and popular culture.

Yeah, why limit it to one area. They'll probably incorporate it into Visual Studio.

It's about azure and the future AI product ecosystem which aligns with azures "cognitive services".

More important question is what does OpenAI bring to the table that can't be found elsewhere?

It doesn't cost 10B to train a language model of that scale. There's no network effect like with a search engine or social media. OpenAI doesn't have access to some exclusive pile of data ( Microsoft has more of that proprietary data than OpenAI ). OpenAI doesn't have access to some exclusive cluster of compute ( Microsoft does ). There isn't that much proprietary knowledge exclusive to OpenAI. Microsoft wouldn't be training a language model for the first time either. So what? Just an expensive acquihire?

Your link doesn't work. It's just a broken placeholder image. Perhaps you were trying to insult me somehow but failed?

It's someone that's excited about the idea.

Imagine games with GPT NPCs

ClipPT

Your rebuttal is a 100 follower twitter account?..

Cortana/Alexa require predictability, not creativity. They may implement in a small way to cortana, but I'm sure its not their focus.

Just wait till Clippy turns into Skynet.

It's to gain an edge in everything from search, assistant, coding and gaming. It is a gamble but it's the only chance to beat Google that Microsoft has.

10…… Billion……. Bitcoins?!?

Yes it is actually possible get back the original data from the latent space. Check out autoencoders.

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I thinks it’s all about bringing back Clippy - more powerful than ever!

Are you a VC? If so, let's schedule a meeting and we can discuss it.

for corporates only? why would you think that?

Bingo!

i believe it s about the new MS Office autocomplete feature (Clippy v2) (requires extra subscription)

>coqui TTS

thanks a lot i should test

> The VC is needed for generating fake websites for these fake results.

No, I get what you're looking for VC for - my point is, why would VC want to give you funding? What's the business model, what's the value?