The difference, though, as someone who really doesn't have a particular dog in this fight, is that I can go use GPT-4 right now, and see for myself whether it's as exciting as the marketing materials say.
When OpenAI launched GPT-4, API access was initially behind a waitlist. And they released multiple demo stills of LMM capacilities on launch day that for months were in a limited partner program before they became generally available only 7 months later.
I also want the shiny immediately when I read about it, but I also know when I am acting entitled and don't go spam comment threads about it.
But really, mostly I mean this: It's fine to criticize things, but when half a dozen people have already raised a point in a thread, we don't need more dupes. It really changes signal-to-noise.
