Agarwal: ChatGPT succeeded by giving pre-existing LLMs a consumer interface
Manoj Agarwal · Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show · Feb 2, 2024 · at 19:37
Manoj Agarwal, co-founder of DevRev, explains why OpenAI's ChatGPT achieved mass adoption compared to earlier API access for large language models.
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“And chart GPT was nothing but a UI representation or UI interface through which that human could go and interact with the LLMs or GPT models. That's what it provided a mechanism because prior to that, that, okay, through the APIs and you, by writing the code and all that, you could go and achieve that. But that didn't really reach the masses.”
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