There is no substitute for real-time when you're doing creative work.
That's why GitHub Copilot works so well; that's why ChatGPT struck a chord with people—it streamed the characters back to you quite fast.
At first, I was skeptical too. I asked myself “what about Photoshop 1.0? They surely couldn't do it in real-time.”. It turns out that even then you needed it. Of course, compute wasn't there to do a simple translation of all rasterized pixel values that form an image within a layer, but there was a trick they did: they showed you the outline that would tell you, the user, where the content _will_ render if you let the mouse go.
And it did blow up! But not as much as changing the UI towards a (familiar) chat interface.
Good point! I agree with it but forgot to mention it: interaction matters.
With GitHub Copilot you are in familiar terrain, your code editor; with ChatGPT, you are talking to it the same way you'd talk to an assistant, via chat/email.
And we, at KREA, don't think it'll be the exception for AI for creativity.
That's definitely true, the chat format (vs the completion format) made all the difference. So much so that ChatGPT blew up even though it was inferior in capabilities to GPT-3, just because it was (much) more usable.
There is no substitute for real-time when you're doing creative work.
That's why GitHub Copilot works so well; that's why ChatGPT struck a chord with people—it streamed the characters back to you quite fast.
At first, I was skeptical too. I asked myself “what about Photoshop 1.0? They surely couldn't do it in real-time.”. It turns out that even then you needed it. Of course, compute wasn't there to do a simple translation of all rasterized pixel values that form an image within a layer, but there was a trick they did: they showed you the outline that would tell you, the user, where the content _will_ render if you let the mouse go.
You can see the workflow here:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftaIzyrMDqE
It applies to general tools too; you can see the same on this MacOS 8 demo (it runs on the browser!):
> https://infinitemac.org/1998/Mac%20OS%208.1