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What Is The Difference Between ChatGPT And The AI Model Behind It?
The layers a product wraps around a model, and why the same model can feel so different.
The takeaways
- 01An AI product is more than the model that generates its responses.
- 02Product design can significantly change how the same model behaves.
- 03Do not judge a model only by one product built around it.
- 04Know the model, tools, access, and policies behind the product.
Read this comic as text
Reader Is ChatGPT simply the AI model with a chat box?
Robot It is a product that combines one or more models with an interface and additional capabilities.
Takeaway: An AI product is more than the model that generates its responses.
Reader What do those other layers change?
Robot They shape what the model can access, remember, search, create, and do.
Takeaway: Product design can significantly change how the same model behaves.
Reader Could the same model behave differently in two applications?
Robot Yes. Different system prompts, context, tools, and guardrails can create very different experiences.
Takeaway: Do not judge a model only by one product built around it.
Reader I will ask which model and product features are active for my task.
Robot That will help you understand both capability and risk.
Takeaway: Know the model, tools, access, and policies behind the product.
- AI product
- An application that combines models with interfaces, instructions, tools, and controls.
- Interface
- The part of a product through which a person interacts with the AI.
- System prompt
- Higher-level instructions supplied by the application to guide model behaviour.
- Guardrail
- A control that limits what an AI system can receive, generate, or do.