Glaringly missing from the announcements:
concrete use cases and products.
The Achilles heel of LLMs is the distinct lack of practical real-world applications.
Yes, Google and Microsoft have been shoving the tech into everything they can fit,
but that doesn't a product make.
I would say Adobe is doing an excellent job of commercialising image manipulation and generation using LLMs. When I see adverts for their new features, they seem genuinely useful for normie users who are trying to edit some family/holiday photos.
Is that article trying to argue that 500M people every week are visiting ChatGPT for the first (or second) time after reading about it in the news?
If I'm being incredibly generous I will concede that this could have been the case for the first few weeks when it was making headlines, but it clearly isn't true now.
It would be literally impossible to keep up these figures for as long as ChatGPT has without a ton of repeat users. There simply aren't enough people/devices.
The Achilles heel of LLMs is the distinct lack of practical real-world applications. Yes, Google and Microsoft have been shoving the tech into everything they can fit, but that doesn't a product make.