If You Want to Master Generative AI, Ignore All (But Two) Tools
We have a bad case of generative AI fatigue
It’s February 7th. Quite cold outside but apparently not enough to cool down the excitement ChatGPT sparked just before winter. Microsoft is ready to announce Bing Chat, a chatbot built on top of the next-generation model from OpenAI and capable of web search — Google is doomed (for the second time in a matter of three months, no less). Everyone will jump to Bing and Microsoft will eat Google’s search revenue.
It’s March 14th. Flowers are shyly blooming in the northern hemisphere. We have been particularly awaiting a rare one with 8 (or is it 16?) petals. It is about to open up (or maybe not). GPT-4 is out; the most secretive release ever for a language model. But it’s better, no — much better than GPT-3.5. Who wouldn’t pay $20/month for a 100x productivity boost? It’s a bargain.
It’s March 21st. A soft, possibly hallucinated melody has awakened Google from a long hibernation. Bard is music for Sundar Pichai’s ears. But some notes are off-key — a rushed release? It may appear the pincer movement of the two above worked just fine. But Bard is just a tester — the real banger will come down the road with more powerful models. Google is…
