Sam: I genuinely don’t know. I’ve reflected on it a lot. We had the model for ChatGPT in the API for I don’t know 10 months or something before we made ChatGPT. And I sort of thought someone was going to just build it or whatever and that enough people had played around with it. Definitely, if you make a really good user experience on top of something. One thing that I very deeply believed was the way people wanted to interact with these models was via dialogue. We kept telling people this we kept trying to get people to build it and people wouldn’t quite do it. So we finally said all right we’re just going to do it, but yeah I think the pieces were there for a while.
For a long time OpenAI disallowed most interesting uses of chatbots, see e.g. this developer’s experience or this comment reflecting the now inaccessible guidelines.
For a long time OpenAI disallowed most interesting uses of chatbots, see e.g. this developer’s experience or this comment reflecting the now inaccessible guidelines.