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They do have open source projects, but their mission is not to necessarily be an open source company. They want to equalize the footing in AI for everyone, and
by gavanwoolery 10y ago
They do have open source projects, but their mission is not to necessarily be an open source company. They want to equalize the footing in AI for everyone, and this might require some degree of secrecy so that commercial AI companies do not get an edge. At least, that is my perception, feel free to correct me.
- angersock 10y ago> They want to equalize the footing in AI for everyone Equal opportunity to pay, or actually democratizing it so that anybody who wants to use it can reap the benefits? I'm willing to bet it's not the latter, given the reliance of AI on large training corpuses and machine time.
- gavanwoolery 10y agoI think its more about making the same research available to everyone, or other things that are relatively free to distribute (like code, even though, as hinted, it does not mean that everything will be open-sourced as its written). Although, you do make a good point. If only the most powerful companies can afford meaningful machine time, how democratized can AI be?
- angersock 10y ago> If only the most powerful companies can afford meaningful machine time, how democratized can AI be? That's the big trick that nobody seems to give a shit about, as they scramble around to make a buck. Having the research or even the code doesn't really give you an advantage. We're just trading one set of overlords for another.
- dilemma 10y agoOkay, so OpenAI is not open source but a private company.