Can open-source models replace ChatGPT?

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David J. Kim · Accepted Answer

Google themselves believe so.

"We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI"

Vlad Golub · Answer

Interesting question! While open-source models are definitely making strides in the NLP space, I don't think they can fully replace ChatGPT just yet. However, it's great to see more options becoming available in this field 😄

Christian Grundemann · Answer

it will be a while for sure. the technical accessibility for a strong model that ChatGPT gives is unparalleled. give it a year or two, and we’ll def see some open-source models being unsiloed from the more boring use-cases they’re being used for now (spam detection etc)

Ilko Kacharov [Team-GPT] · Answer

Just finished reading about StableVicuna and it really looks like the era of the closed models will be over soon. https://stability.ai/blog/stable...

Anil Matcha · Answer

@between_team Yes, saw that news but was not sure if real or not

Ed SK · Answer

Closed source models will try anything in their power to make their concept more valuable than open source models.

I think it's plausible that open source models might replace chatgpt in a few years but for now OpenAI has the first mover advantage.

A game changer would be running open source models on phones/iot devices

Shreya Meduri · Answer

I think it is possible.

Dhruv · Answer

We seem to be moving in that direction, but not quite there yet.
Current open-source models can match the capabilities till GPT-3 or GPT-3.5, but it's still far off from GPT-4 / ChatGPT.
But this has been the trend so far, open source models take time and usually lag behind the commercial ones, till they hit an inflexion point, and actually start improving and beating closed-source ones. We hope that the inflexion point comes soon.
Another direction would be that we get smaller, use-case-specific models which beat ChatGPT, trained on your own data or data that you're interested in.

Hashnimo · Answer

Yes, but maybe Google purposely leaked the "We have no moat!" document.

Hashir Ahmed · Answer

While open-source language models are a valuable tool in natural language processing, they are not yet at the same level as ChatGPT in terms of overall performance and versatility.

Héctor Magaña · Answer

@between_team Google is not a person. An internal researcher at Google made that statement. 
Personally, I foresee the main problem that AI tech will face in the near future to be the licensing of datasets. Current laws do not protect creators against their data being used to power these AI models, this will change soon.
I think that when such laws are implemented properly both open and closed models will be severely impacted but I aso expect Tech Companies to be working on creating internal high-quality datasets as we speak which may give them an edge over open models.

Florian Myter · Answer

There's a number of limits (e.g. token sizes) for which I don't see how open-source models could beat OpenAI with its massive resources.

Prerana Chakraborty · Answer

I feel if the open source models are trained on that vast amount of data and resources, they are capable of replacing ChatGPT.

Kamohelo Radebe · Answer

Certainly, open-source models can do so. But my twist here is that they should be allowed to flourish in the market, and large enterprises who may have their own agenda should refrain from colluding. But on a product capability basis? Sure!

Chad Lynch · Answer

I believe that while they have the potential to be powerful tools, they cannot completely replace ChatGPT's ability to generate natural and coherent responses in a wide range of contexts.

Can open-source models replace ChatGPT?

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