fasttosmile t1_janaaex wrote on March 2, 2023 at 5:31 PM

Reply to comment by harharveryfunny in [D] OpenAI introduces ChatGPT and Whisper APIs (ChatGPT API is 1/10th the cost of GPT-3 API) by minimaxir

GCP, speechmatics, rev, otter.ai, assemblyai etc. etc. offer similar or better performance, as well as streaming and a much more rich output.

MonstarGaming t1_jap8605 wrote on March 3, 2023 at 1:34 AM

That seems to be the gist of this entire thread. This is the first API most of /r/machinelearning have heard of so it must be best on the market. /s

To your point, there are companies who have been developing speech-to-text for decades. The capability is so unremarkable that most (all?) cloud providers have a speech-to-text offering already and it easily integrates with their other services.

I know this is a hot take, but I don't think OpenAI has a business strategy. They're deploying expensive models that directly compete with entrenched, big tech companies. They can't be thinking they're going to take market share away from GCP, AWS, Azure with technologies that all three offer already, right? Right???

fasttosmile t1_japaes4 wrote on March 3, 2023 at 1:51 AM

To be fair, they are technically very competent and the pricing is very cheap. And their marketing is great.

But yeah dealing with B2B customers (where the money is) and integrating feedback from them is a very different thing than what they've been doing so far. They might be angling to serve as a platform for AI companies that then have to deal with average customers. That way they get to only deal with people who understand the limitations of AI. Could work. Will change the company to be less researchy though.