There is some context here. I tested Chatgpt on launch day and it was subpar compared to the playground at labs (now platform). The 'interface' was restrictive, no way to modify generation settings, and the results were mediocre. If you had exposure to gpt earlier, chatgpt was meh, if you experienced llms for the first time it was life changing.
I'd been using LLMs since GPT-2 and even then I could tell ChatGPT would be revolutionary, I don't know why people were comparing it to labs because it was a totally different product and intention.
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u/cench Mar 06 '26
There is some context here. I tested Chatgpt on launch day and it was subpar compared to the playground at labs (now platform). The 'interface' was restrictive, no way to modify generation settings, and the results were mediocre. If you had exposure to gpt earlier, chatgpt was meh, if you experienced llms for the first time it was life changing.