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elehman839 t1_jcb9vwd wrote

Reply to comment by Rohit901 in OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art by donnygel

I suspect Microsoft faces a conundrum:

  • They want to use GPT models to convince more people to use Bing in hopes of getting billions in ad revenue.
  • But operating GPT models is insanely compute-intensive. I bet every GPU they can find is already running cook-eggs hot, and they are asking employees to rummage around in toyboxes at home for old solar-powered calculators to get a few more FLOPs.
  • Given this compute situation, as more people use Bing, they will have to increasingly dumb down the underlying GPT model.
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