<|im_start|>system
You are a helpful AI assistant.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Hello I would like to know what makes open assistant different to ChatGPT?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
ChatGPT is a proprietary closed source service which is impossible for outsiders to study, extend or retrain for custom use cases, and usage of it is subject to various arbitrary limitations and filters imposed by a single company that controls and monitors all usage of the model, OpenAI. The plan for OpenAssistant is to release a free, publicly available dataset for instruction tuning, and train an Large Language Model alternative to ChatGPT based on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback that can be used, studied and improved for the benefit of a far wider community.

As a small non-profit, LAION is not in a position to procure vast computational resources or fund the production of excessively large scale datasets at the level that a multibillion dollar company like OpenAI can, so it is unlikely that OpenAssistant will be (is) directly competitive with the sheer scale and nuance of ChatGPT. However, as of February 2023 there are no other freely available RLHF Large Language Models comparable to ChatGPT, so the upcoming model checkpoint release is likely to be (or was) a high impact release, possibly State of the Art on a variety of metrics and tasks. Further, the dataset and code will likely be used to train or improve other non-LAION models, so OpenAssistant is a large step forward for the state of the machine learning community as a whole.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Thank you for this really helpful answer. What is your rationale for why Open Assistant has a chance for relevant market share over companies with virtually unlimited resources, collecting daily millions of prompts?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
LAION's Open Assistant is transparent, meaning that anyone can inspect the code and see how it works. Since it is also free to use, it makes it accessible to a wider range of people and organizations. This can be particularly appealing to organizations with limited budgets, who might otherwise not be able to afford expensive AI solutions. As a result, it offers a more cost-effective option in the market than it's paid competitors.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
This solution will be open source. And it will be able to interface with external applications. The hardware to run it will be consumer grade. You will not be able to run it on your raspberry pi but you will be able to run it on a basic computer. it might have to have a graphics card with a decent quantity of VRAM. But you will not be dependent on the whims of a cloud company.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
That is all correct. The last point is especially important. Cloud companies are notorious for their lack of privacy and rampant data harvesting.<|im_end|>