<story><title>ChatGPT Plugins</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>A couple (wow, only 5!) months ago, I wrote up this long screed[1] about how OpenAI had completely missed the generative AI art wave because they hadn&amp;#x27;t iterated on DALL-E 2 after launch. It also got a lot of upvotes which I was pretty happy about at the time :)&lt;p&gt;Never have I been more wrong. It&amp;#x27;s clear to me now that they simply didn&amp;#x27;t even care about the astounding leap forward that was generative AI art and were instead focused on even &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; high-impact products. (Can you imagine going back 6 months and telling your past self &amp;quot;Yeah, generative AI is alright, but it&amp;#x27;s roughly the 4th most impressive project that OpenAI will put out this year&amp;quot;?!) ChatGPT, GPT4, and now this: the mind boggles.&lt;p&gt;Watching some of the gifs of GPT using the internet, summarizing web pages, comparing them, etc is truly mind-blowing. I mean yeah I always thought this was the end goal but I would have put it a couple years out, not now. Holy moly.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=33010982&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=33010982&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway675309</author><text>No that wasn&amp;#x27;t what they had in mind at all, it was pretty clear from the start that they intended to monetize DALL-E. It&amp;#x27;s just that it turned out that you require far smaller models to be able to do generative art, so competitors like stability AI were able to release viable alternatives before OpenAI could establish a monopoly.&lt;p&gt;Why do you think that Sam Altman keeps calling for government intervention with regards to AI? He doesn&amp;#x27;t want to see a repeat of what happened with generative art, and there&amp;#x27;s nothing like a few bureaucratic road blocks to slow down your competitors.</text></comment>
<story><title>ChatGPT Plugins</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>A couple (wow, only 5!) months ago, I wrote up this long screed[1] about how OpenAI had completely missed the generative AI art wave because they hadn&amp;#x27;t iterated on DALL-E 2 after launch. It also got a lot of upvotes which I was pretty happy about at the time :)&lt;p&gt;Never have I been more wrong. It&amp;#x27;s clear to me now that they simply didn&amp;#x27;t even care about the astounding leap forward that was generative AI art and were instead focused on even &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; high-impact products. (Can you imagine going back 6 months and telling your past self &amp;quot;Yeah, generative AI is alright, but it&amp;#x27;s roughly the 4th most impressive project that OpenAI will put out this year&amp;quot;?!) ChatGPT, GPT4, and now this: the mind boggles.&lt;p&gt;Watching some of the gifs of GPT using the internet, summarizing web pages, comparing them, etc is truly mind-blowing. I mean yeah I always thought this was the end goal but I would have put it a couple years out, not now. Holy moly.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=33010982&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=33010982&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>Stable Diffusion A1111 and other webUIs are moving so fast with a bunch of OSS contributions, seems pretty rational for OpenAI to decide to not compete and just copy the interfaces of the popular tools once the users validate their usefulness rather than trying to design them a priori.</text></comment>