This comes from OpenAI saying they didn’t expect ChatGPT to be a big commercial success. It was not a top-priority project.
ChatGPT was not GPT-4. It was a relatively minor fixup of GPT-3, GPT-3.5, with an improved RLHF variant, that they released while working on GPT-4′s evaluations & productizing, which was supposed to be the big commercial success.
This comes from OpenAI saying they didn’t expect ChatGPT to be a big commercial success. It was not a top-priority project.
ChatGPT was not GPT-4. It was a relatively minor fixup of GPT-3, GPT-3.5, with an improved RLHF variant, that they released while working on GPT-4′s evaluations & productizing, which was supposed to be the big commercial success.