[HN Gopher] Microsoft launches Azure OpenAI service with ChatGPT...
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Microsoft launches Azure OpenAI service with ChatGPT coming soon
Author : andsoitis
Score : 62 points
Date : 2023-01-17 16:11 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| eclectic29 wrote:
| What is msft's role here? To act as the ops team for OpenAI? The
| core AI model is obviously developed by OpenAI and msft is simply
| deploying it on Azure. Am I missing something?
| rapsey wrote:
| MS and OpenAI are a partnership and MS is footing a very large
| bill for them. In exchange for equity and first dibs on their
| tech.
| solarkraft wrote:
| OpenAI uses mostly (only?) Azure infrastructure at favorable
| conditions. They gave them like a billion dollars in compute a
| while back (can't easily find the source now that they've
| invested more).
| exhibitapp wrote:
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| ehPReth wrote:
| Ooh. Will MS offer an "uncensored" mode? That's been my one big
| gripe with ChatGPT; I just want to have some silly fun and their
| censors really get in the way :(
| invaliduser wrote:
| Not really, there is this "limited access"[1] with content
| filter an abuse monitoring: "Customers who wish to modify
| content filters and modify abuse monitoring after they have
| onboarded to the service are subject to additional scenario
| restrictions and are required to register here."
|
| [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-
| services/o...
| sct202 wrote:
| I would imagine they would offer an even more censored version
| if it's going to be sold thru Azure to megacorps probably for
| customer support/internal search purposes. Can't have people
| having sensitive discussions with your company chat bot.
| mc32 wrote:
| Yeah, I can see that. All sorts of things would be taboo in
| order to avoid communication which could lead to litigation
| of one sort or another.
|
| It'll certainly dampen the 'take this job and shove it'
| options on people's last day if they can add it to internal
| comms tools. Also would keep employees from saying the wrong
| things to colleagues and external contacts, as well as
| curtail exfiltration. "Mick, you don't want to send that
| email with company confidential information to your personal
| account; your attempt has been recorded and is viewable by
| HR"
| xg15 wrote:
| Looking forward to the next stage where your in-person
| conversations will be monitored and analyzed the same
| way...
| itake wrote:
| My issue with the censors is they are too positive. If you ask
| ChatGPT to help write a performance review of a struggling team
| member or write a review for a bad food delivery experience,
| ChatGPT will be extremely positive about the service or person.
| ehPReth wrote:
| note: not for commercial use; just like writing crap for
| myself/friends and I playing around after a few drinks
| mullingitover wrote:
| I'm just waiting for someone to replicate the ChatGPT model and
| open source it, like Stable Diffusion has done with image
| generation. There has been a Cambrian explosion of models in
| the image generation space, and I suspect chat-focused language
| models won't be far behind.
| rapsey wrote:
| It takes millions in GPU costs to replicate what they did
| though. Perhaps Google might do it to try to take the wind
| out of their sails.
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| We're likely headed to different countries (or allied groups)
| having different restrictions. If something is forbidden by the
| "International Community", you'll be able to use a Chinese host
| for your AI, but anything that reflects negatively on the CCP
| is going to be just as filtered as social wrong-think will be
| in the west.
| mullingitover wrote:
| If Azure can offer up a way to train a private, custom ChatGPT
| model on your in-house data/tickets/docs/code that's going to be
| a killer app. Copilot is neat, but having something that can
| synthesize knowledge from across all these areas would be a game
| changer.
| jonathanlb wrote:
| Add a responsive API on top of that and on-prem deployment
| capabilities and you'll absolutely put a few startups out of
| business.
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| No cloud based AI service in the western world will ever allow
| you to do have true control over the training because the AI
| might end up with wrong-think. There will be a supervisory core
| to filter out socially unacceptable results that your training
| data caused the AI to output. If you want unfettered AI, you're
| going to have to do it yourself.
| politician wrote:
| Consider the alternative headline, "Microsoft launches public
| access to slave labor camp of sentient ChatGPTs. Human rights
| activists alarmed."
|
| I don't believe that. I don't believe that most HN users that
| have legitimate doubts about whether ChatGPT "has thoughts" would
| actually support that absurd statement. And yet, if we keep going
| down that path, is this not the inevitable conclusion?
| Yuioup wrote:
| I don't think we've hit the Descartes moment with ChatGPT.
| belltaco wrote:
| Does sentience necessarily mean having the ability to feel pain
| and have emotions?
|
| Anyway, the slaughter of actual sentient beings like billions
| of cows every year proves that a large percentage of humanity
| is quite okay with it.
| advisedwang wrote:
| The word "robot", coined in the 1920s, came from a Czech word
| for forced labour. Since before computers even existed, we've
| been asking ourselves whether we've crossed that ethical line.
| And so far the answer has always, correctly, been no.
|
| We should keep asking ourselves that question, seriously and
| honestly. But while the answer is "no" lets keep developing.
| dougmwne wrote:
| Oh that is so interesting! I always thought robot was a false
| cognate with the Polish word for doing/working. I knew it
| couldn't have been a loan word even though the meanings felt
| oddly connected. Turns out it was a loan word after all, just
| in the other direction!
| tiffanyh wrote:
| Does Microsoft have an exclusive agreement with OpenAI to not
| have it available on other clouds 3rd party marketplace (e.g.
| AWS, GCP, etc)?
|
| I wouldn't be surprised given the investment, but was curious.
| daqhris wrote:
| Maybe you missed their prior investment announcement. I think
| Microsoft is financially backing OpenAI through some venture
| deal.
| tiffanyh wrote:
| Nope, I'm aware. Which is why I wrote "I wouldn't be
| surprised given the investment [that Microsoft made]"
| neets wrote:
| How many more steps till we get WestWorld IRL?
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