I think talking about Google/DeepMind as a unitary entity is a mistake. I’m gonna guess that Peter agrees, and that’s why he specified DeepMind. Google’s publications identify at least two internal language models superior to Lambda, so their release of Bard based on Lambda doesn’t tell us much. They are certainly behind in commercializing chatbots, but is that a weak claim. How DeepMind compares to OpenAI is difficult. Four people going to OpenAI is damning, though.
A somewhat reliable source has told me that they don’t have the compute infrastructure to support making a more advanced model available to users.
That might also reflect limited engineering efforts to optimize state-of-the-art models for real world usage (think of the performance gains from GPT-3.5 Turbo) as opposed to hitting benchmarks for a paper to be published.
I think talking about Google/DeepMind as a unitary entity is a mistake. I’m gonna guess that Peter agrees, and that’s why he specified DeepMind. Google’s publications identify at least two internal language models superior to Lambda, so their release of Bard based on Lambda doesn’t tell us much. They are certainly behind in commercializing chatbots, but is that a weak claim. How DeepMind compares to OpenAI is difficult. Four people going to OpenAI is damning, though.
A somewhat reliable source has told me that they don’t have the compute infrastructure to support making a more advanced model available to users.
That might also reflect limited engineering efforts to optimize state-of-the-art models for real world usage (think of the performance gains from GPT-3.5 Turbo) as opposed to hitting benchmarks for a paper to be published.