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Is it possible that the reason Quoc Le never published the code is that it got tangled up in the word2vec patent? At GTC 2015, Ren Wu stated (paraphrased) that

by varelse 11y ago

Is it possible that the reason Quoc Le never published the code is that it got tangled up in the word2vec patent? At GTC 2015, Ren Wu stated (paraphrased) that the reason DNNs are advancing so quickly is because all the practitioners are sharing code, data, and techniques too quickly for the lawyers to gum up the works. The lawyers have since stepped up their game IMO, doing their best to protect us from that imminent Robot Apocalypse Elon Musk keeps warning us is right around the corner.

rspeer 11y ago
That would be a pretty plausible explanation of why Le has gone completely silent about that paper. I assumed the worst when I read your comment; I figured that neural net semantics was going to stall for 17 years the same way that basic morphology did when Xerox patented FSTs. But it looks like word2vec is Apache-licensed, meaning the patent can only be used defensively. Phew.