The Real Agenda Behind All the Chatbots
SlateThis article is from Big Technology, a newsletter by Alex Kantrowitz. “For OpenAI, the vast majority of the money they will ever make will come from developers,” Ben Parr, president of the e-commerce-software company Octane AI, told me via phone on Thursday. When ChatGPT gained momentum in January, OpenAI president Greg Brockman teased an API “coming soon.” That same week, Microsoft made OpenAI models available through Azure, its cloud service. “Everybody who develops software is either alerted, or shocked into alert, or actively working on something that is like ChatGPT to be integrated into their application, or integrated into their service,” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said during his company’s earnings call Wednesday. “Now we just need to figure out how we field it.” Later in the video, Coca-Cola executives said they planned to use the tech in their marketing efforts “to deliver creative content at speed.” Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey also mentioned he believed the tech would change knowledge work, but without going into specifics.