Execs: “We don’t have time for stupid things like ‘ready’! We want MONEY! Push early! Push often! It’ll maybe someday work, in the meantime… MONEY!”
Typical M$. Pushing half-baked and bugged products just to take a market share.
I wish tech companies would do this more. Put a warning or label on it if you have to, but interacting with that early version of the Bing chatbot was the most fun I had with tech in awhile. You don’t have to install a ton of guardrails on everything before it goes out to the public.
No number of restrictions or warnings or labels or checkboxes will stop people from writing articles about how all the scandalous things Microsoft’s chatbot said
Feel like they could have rolled with it
Gotta make some profits!
Rushing out general purpose AI, what could go wrong
Standard business practice.
- Get it out there, tout it as the new biggest thing. Most people won’t know it’s not busted.
- Improve said item once the company behind it actually figures out what they’re doing.
- Say it’s better, when it’s basically the original thing you promised.
- ???
- Profit.
It’s called prototyping do you even design think?
Only half joking as this is the actual strategy.
Whoa there slow down there maestro. New and Improved‽ By golly this thingy gets better and better-er, to which corporate department do I need to make this comically sized check out to?
They are competitors after all. Openai would love to see Microsoft keep working on gpt integration for the coming years while Chatgpt steals the show.
