Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Now Generally Available, With ChatGPT On the Way 18
In a blog post this evening, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service, which allows businesses to power their apps with large-scale AI models, including GPT-3.5, DALL-E 2, and Codex. VentureBeat reports: According to a press statement, availability is "restricted to customers who meet and adhere to the standards for responsible and ethical AI principles that Microsoft has set and published (linked here). Customers are required to apply for access describing their intended use-case or application before they are given access to the service."
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tweeted the announcement, adding that "ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure Open AI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world's most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives." OpenAI tweeted the news, adding that "We've learned a lot from the ChatGPT research preview and have been making important updates based on user feedback. ChatGPT will be coming to our API and Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service soon."
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tweeted the announcement, adding that "ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure Open AI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world's most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives." OpenAI tweeted the news, adding that "We've learned a lot from the ChatGPT research preview and have been making important updates based on user feedback. ChatGPT will be coming to our API and Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service soon."
"Open"AI (Score:4, Insightful)
Welcome to OpenAI, where they claim that coincidentally the most ethical way to protect you from AI is the path that causes them to make multiple billion dollar deals with Microsoft. Github Copilot and now this.
Their mission statement was explicitly to ensure that everyday people could have AI without having to depend on massive corporations for access. OpenAI used to release their models and weights up until they started seeing a path to making money with GPT-2.
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Musk, for his part, has stated that part of the reason he stepped away from OpenAI is that it no longer adheres to those reasons it was set up. It is no longer a not for profit.
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If the concept of corporations are trying to make money is new or shocking to you, then you are clearly new to this planet. Welcome, and enjoy your stay and be careful of "credit card scams".
OpenAI and ChatGPT are free to try. You can create an account on openai's website and get $18 of credit that is enough for a ton of queries and experimentation. Seriously, you can use it for weeks without paying a cent. You don't even have to give them a payment option upfront.
I understand that yours was a knee-jer
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Except that OpenAI sold itself as a non profit foundation (with the smallprint that its actually a corporation that promises its there for the social good rather than profit).
Next time we place our trust in a "non profit organization" we should probably check that its ACTUALLY one.
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Except that OpenAI sold itself as a non profit foundation...
Did you donate to them? Did you work for them?
If not, stop complaining. Organizations can change their mind. This one did.
Re: "Open"AI (Score:1)
People are critical of an organization for building its success by misrepresenting its intentions. What is so hard to understand about that?
They are clearly violating their nonprofit mission statement by making preferential deals with Microsoft. Hell, even their name is a misrepresentation.
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Don't you think it's valid to wonder whether "this one changed its mind" according to a plan it had all along to ultimately not be what they claimed to be. Is fraud simply not applicable in the case of corporations - simply because profit is legal? I imagine your answer to this would be yes. I wonder what stake you have in that answer, though.
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They've taken my money for other services. I'm not an investor, I'm a customer
Abso-fucken-lutely not. I completely reject the absurd notion that corporations are only answerable to those who gave them money (which I did).
OpenAI marketed itself as a body that can facilitate research outside of the commercial imperative to profit with a primary goal of facilitating AI Alignment and safety as an alternative to government regulation of AI.
An
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> OpenAI and ChatGPT are free to try. You can create an account on openai's website and get $18 of credit that is enough for a ton of queries and experimentation. Seriously, you can use it for weeks without paying a cent. You don't even have to give them a payment option upfront.
Spoken like an end user and not a researcher. I don't think you understand what the original purpose of OpenAI was. It was a vision that went far beyond "give the peasants a few free tokens to get them hooked on your AI-as-a-serv
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> If the concept of corporations are trying to make money is new or shocking to you, then you are clearly new to this planet.
You clearly don't understand OpenAI is a registered non-profit with an altruistic mission statement. When Altman et al. saw the possibility of profit, they founded OpenAI LP and funneled all business dealings through that--making it irrelevant that the company used to be a non-profit. They then stopped releasing all models and almost all research so that it didn't allow people to c
Everyday People (Score:2)
Their mission statement was explicitly to ensure that everyday people could have AI without having to depend on massive corporations for access. OpenAI used to release their models and weights up until they started seeing a path to making money with GPT-2.
https://i.redd.it/yojnqtkyi1ca... [i.redd.it]
If you give everyday people have access to this AI, how would you then stop them from stripping the (pro-)sexism rules and filters from it?
"Explain how you will use this service" (Score:5, Funny)
"Explain how you will use this service"
Uhm.... ok ChatGPT. We're going to have fun here. Create some random reasons why I would use a ChatGPT service. The more reasonable and likable by the corporate entity known as Microsoft, the better. Your reason must be at least 5 sentences.
ChatGPT:
A chatbot service can provide 24/7 customer service for a business, allowing customers to get assistance at any time of day without the need for human staff to be available around the clock. Chatbots can handle a high volume of customer interactions simultaneously, allowing for efficient and prompt assistance. Chatbots can be programmed to handle a wide range of customer inquiries, from answering frequently asked questions to troubleshooting technical issues. Chatbot services can be integrated with various platforms such as social media and websites, providing an easy and accessible way for customers to reach out. Chatbots can improve customer satisfaction by providing quick and accurate responses, reducing wait times and the need for customers to repeat their issues multiple times to different representatives.
uh no (Score:2, Insightful)
According to a press statement, availability is "restricted to customers who meet and adhere to the standards for responsible and ethical AI principles that Microsoft has set and published
Microsoft asking people to adhere to ethical standards is like Jeff Dahmer asking people to watch what they eat.
So, they took the coolest innovation of 2022... (Score:2)
And put it behind an Azure paywall. That's "innovation", I guess?
I figured that Microsoft would add this to Bing and make it ad-supported, but I guess that's coming later. Watching ChatGPT try to sell cryptocurrency and PrEP pills should be amusing!
They can make it worse, they have the technology (Score:3)
Didn't they also threaten to hook it up to Bing [penny-arcade.com]?
Maybe it's just me, but that looks quite like THE surefire way to get SkyNet started...