> I've been saying the same things for weeks, right here and in the usual places. Basically - OpenAI will not be able to continue to commercialise chatGPT-3.5, they will have to move to GPT-4 because the open source alternatives will catch up. Their island of exclusivity is shrinking fast. In a few months nobody will want to pay for GPT-4 either when they can have private, cheap equivalents. So GPT-5 it is for OpenAI.
It is worth $20 a month to have one UI on one service that does everything.
Unless specialized models can far exceed what GPT4 can do, being general purpose is amazing.
IMHO the future is APIs written for consumption by LLMs, and then natural language interfaces and just telling an AI literally anything you want done.
>It is worth $20 a month to have one UI on one service that does everything.
competition will drive profit margins and prices down to nothing because the number of companies that can spin up an UI is unlimited. Markets don't pay you what something is worth, they pay what the cheapest participant is willing to sell it for.
> competition will drive profit margins and prices down to nothing
I strongly suspect the profit margin on ChatGPT is already pretty low!
> Markets don't pay you what something is worth, they pay what the cheapest participant is willing to sell it for.
Correction: Markets pay what companies are able to convince consumers to pay. Some products bring negative value to the buyer, but are still sold for hundreds of millions of dollars (see: enterprise sales and integrations, which oftentime fail).
I'm paying but hate the UI. I had to add labels myself as a Tampermonkey extension, but it would be much better if they would give API access to what I'm paying for and let UIs compete.
> It is worth $20 a month to have one UI on one service that does everything.
Today it is. When there is an open source, capable “one UI for everything” that runs locally and can consume external services as needed (but keeps your data locally otherwise), will it still be?
You can't train ChatGPT with your own data and it has the infamous "As a language model..." problem. This is why an alternative that can be run locally is a better option for many people.
It is worth $20 a month to have one UI on one service that does everything.
Unless specialized models can far exceed what GPT4 can do, being general purpose is amazing.
IMHO the future is APIs written for consumption by LLMs, and then natural language interfaces and just telling an AI literally anything you want done.