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The fact that this is behind some bizarre invite-only pay-to-experiment exclusive club is disappointing and sad. Funnily enough, it brings me nostalgic memories

The fact that this is behind some bizarre invite-only pay-to-experiment exclusive club is disappointing and sad. Funnily enough, it brings me nostalgic memories of the days where I had to wait for hours just to get a chance to use the school's only computer for 30 minutes.

joshcryer 5y ago
ElutherAI or others will probably recreate it based on the paper they released. the main innovation is CLIP and how they changed how it approaches turning text into images.
Bud 5y ago
It's not "bizarre" that computing resources cost money and are finite. Nor is "pay-to-experiment" accurate. Nor is "exclusive club" really fair, or in good faith. It's a beta that they are running with their own resources. It makes complete sense that they'd have to limit access.
systemvoltage 5y ago
I disagree. I am glad people are getting paid (exceptionally well) to do stuff like this and they should charge for their efforts. We need more initiatives like this, not less. Open source is amazing boon to our generation, it has enabled free access to basic building blocks for people to build amazing things. But I don't think it is a silver bullet for everything.
mrjangles 5y ago
It really says a lot about what an amazing society we have created in that here we have some people making history by revolutionizing our understanding of something that was (at least in the past) considered absolutely fundamental and unique to the human condition... ...and one of the things that people find remarkable about it is that it isn't immediately and freely available to everyone on earth.
- throwaway48375 5y ago
  To be fair they call themselves OpenAI. Expecting things to be a little more open isn't unreasonable. They are kinda setting themselves up to disappoint people with that name.
- PoignardAzur 5y ago
  Yeah, but I really wish I could use the thing right now. I DM roleplaying games, and I'd love having the ability to just generate high-quality procedural artwork illustrating whatever my last game is. I'm not too upset, though. The way the technology is progressing, it's a pretty short time span between "the bleeding edge researchers can do it" and "there's a phone app that can do it for free".
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joshcryer 5y ago

ElutherAI or others will probably recreate it based on the paper they released. the main innovation is CLIP and how they changed how it approaches turning text into images.

Bud 5y ago

It's not "bizarre" that computing resources cost money and are finite. Nor is "pay-to-experiment" accurate. Nor is "exclusive club" really fair, or in good faith. It's a beta that they are running with their own resources. It makes complete sense that they'd have to limit access.

systemvoltage 5y ago

I disagree. I am glad people are getting paid (exceptionally well) to do stuff like this and they should charge for their efforts. We need more initiatives like this, not less. Open source is amazing boon to our generation, it has enabled free access to basic building blocks for people to build amazing things. But I don't think it is a silver bullet for everything.

mrjangles 5y ago

It really says a lot about what an amazing society we have created in that here we have some people making history by revolutionizing our understanding of something that was (at least in the past) considered absolutely fundamental and unique to the human condition... ...and one of the things that people find remarkable about it is that it isn't immediately and freely available to everyone on earth.

throwaway48375 5y ago
To be fair they call themselves OpenAI. Expecting things to be a little more open isn't unreasonable. They are kinda setting themselves up to disappoint people with that name.
PoignardAzur 5y ago
Yeah, but I really wish I could use the thing right now. I DM roleplaying games, and I'd love having the ability to just generate high-quality procedural artwork illustrating whatever my last game is. I'm not too upset, though. The way the technology is progressing, it's a pretty short time span between "the bleeding edge researchers can do it" and "there's a phone app that can do it for free".
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