Eaklony t1_jcbkqgk wrote on March 15, 2023 at 5:43 PM

Reply to comment by bartturner in [D] What do people think about OpenAI not releasing its research but benefiting from others’ research? Should google meta enforce its patents against them? by [deleted]

That's not how capitalism works. To produce chatgpt they need a lot of money for a huge GPU farm, which needs to be invested by people who expect profits from it. If we want everything to be open sourced then chatgpt as it is now probably wouldn't be possible at all. But anyway I think basic theoretical breakthroughs like a new architecture for AI will still be shared among academia since those aren't directly related to money. Hopefully, it would just be the detailed implementation of actual products that aren't open source.

Nhabls t1_jcbmn7g wrote on March 15, 2023 at 5:55 PM

> If we want everything to be open sourced then chatgpt as it is now probably wouldn't be possible at all

All of the technology concepts behind chatGPT are openly accessible and have been for the past decade, as was the work before, a lot of it came from big tech companies that work for profit, the profit motive is not an excuse. Only unprecedented greed in the space.

Though it comes to no surprise from the company that thinks it can just take any copyrighted data from the internet without any permission while at the same time forbid others from training models from data they get from the company's products. It's just sleaziness at every level.

>But anyway I think basic theoretical breakthroughs like a new architecture for AI will still be shared among academia since those aren't directly related to money

This is exactly what hasn't happened, they refused outright to share any architectural detail, no one was expecting the weights or even code. This is what people are upset about, and rightly so

bartturner t1_jcbmg57 wrote on March 15, 2023 at 5:54 PM

> That's not how capitalism works.

Totally get that it makes no business sense that Google gives away so much stuff. Look at Android. They let Amazon use it for all their stuff.

But I still love it. I wish more companies rolled like Google. They feel like lifting all boats also lifts theirs.

Google being the AI leader for the last decade plus they have set a way of doing things.

OpenAI is not doing the same and that really sucks. I hope the others will not follow the approach by OpenAI and instead continue to roll like they have.