OpenAI seems to also have been caught flat-footed by ChatGPT, or more specifically by the success it got. It seems like the success came largely from the chat interface that made it intuitive for people on the street to use—and none of the LLM techies at any company realized what a difference that would make.
Yes, although the chat interface was necessary but insufficient. They also needed a capable language model behind it, which OpenAI already had, and Google still lacks months later.
OpenAI seems to also have been caught flat-footed by ChatGPT, or more specifically by the success it got. It seems like the success came largely from the chat interface that made it intuitive for people on the street to use—and none of the LLM techies at any company realized what a difference that would make.
Yes, although the chat interface was necessary but insufficient. They also needed a capable language model behind it, which OpenAI already had, and Google still lacks months later.