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"democratize" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The word you are looking for is "mass-market" or perhaps "sell to sma
by timoth3y 5y ago
"democratize"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The word you are looking for is "mass-market" or perhaps "sell to small business".
- OnlineGladiator 5y agoI think the word is monetize.
- qPM9l3XJrF 5y agoOr, for a darker spin, "absolve yourself of responsibility if anyone misuses your API". I actually think OpenAI gets this right with GPT-3, having fairly strict terms of use for their API, so I'm sad to see seemingly less responsible players enter the space.
- robbedpeter 5y agoEleutherAI won this fight already. The technology is freely available for anyone to use however they like, and they're responsible for whatever it is they do with it. The 6 billion parameter model was released just last week with the huggingface api hooks. It's just a few percentage points less performant than Gpt-3 DaVinci in most metrics. You can run it on a laptop with 40gb ram, albeit slowly. All that to say, the horse has left the barn. What openai is doing is just marketing and protecting an investment. They don't have an ethical or moral high ground.
- rahimnathwani 5y agoWhat they say they're doing fits one of the definitions of democratize: "make (something) accessible to everyone". More about the etymology here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/democratize https://www.etymonline.com/word/democratize
- 8note 5y agoCommoditize as an alternative?
- rahimnathwani 5y agoA commodity is a product that's not differentiated between suppliers (think silver, pork bellies, robusta coffee beans). Examples of things that are democratized (accessible to virtually anyone) but not commoditized (not the same as what you can get from other providers): - Coca cola - iPhones - Teslas - Google search - HN If you're going to make money by creating an NLP service for wide adoption, you'd hope to create some competitive moat. Otherwise there's no way for you to earn profits to amortize your R&D.
- NhanH 5y agoSo from your definition and example, it means that Coke want to democratize soda, Apple want to democratize iPhone and Tesla want to democratize EV. I don't think those sentence would have your expected meaning when someone else read them.
- drdeca 5y agoWell, no, because the current state of affairs isn’t that very few people have access to smartphones / soda .
- barbecue_sauce 5y agoSo Coke pioneered the democratization of soda.
- ben_w 5y agoLots of people have access to natural language AI — Google search, voice assistants, WolframAlpha, AI dungeon, GPT-J — so if you agree that Coke doesn’t get to say they’re “democratising” soda because that’s a misuse of terminology, you should also agree that commercial deployment of a natural language AI API doesn’t get to say they’re “democratising” AI because that’s also a misuse of terminology.
- dna_polymerase 5y agoAll that source tells us is that the word has been wrongly used since the french revolution. Democracy means governance by the masses. Has nothing to do with making things accessible to the masses.