Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is refreshingly transparent about the state-of-the-art of ChatGPT. He writes on Twitter:
fun creative inspiration; great! reliance for factual queries; not such a good idea.
we will work hard to improve!
— Sam Altman (@sama) December 11, 2022
I love seeing a CEO and a company not claiming that their product does everything that their competitors’ product does, “and it cooks hamburgers, too!”
This reminds me of John Varley’s novel Steel Beach: “as my old uncle J. Walter Thompson used to say, makes your wash fifty percent whiter, cleans your teeth, and leaves your breath alone.”