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Good for all of us maybe some good alternatives to colab will be created cause of that.
by machinekob 4y ago
Good for all of us maybe some good alternatives to colab will be created cause of that.
- JohnHaugeland 4y agowhy would any other company have the urge to do this?
- rslyr633 4y agoBecause nature abhors a vacuum, and this technology has created one.
- JohnHaugeland 4y agoIt turns out that nature doesn't make SAAS This is an extremely expensive service to make and run, requiring tens of millions of dollars of hardware to get started, and doesn't produce revenue Instead of folksy sayings, see if you can answer the actual question What motivation does another company have for creating this service?
- machinekob 4y agoMake people depends on ecosystem. I'll see AWS/Azure/NVIDIA doing smth like that as that just to create they own ecosystem as its extremely profitable to sell gpu VM's for them.
- visarga 4y agoI presume it's like Microsoft turning a blind eye to unlicensed use of Windows and Office for home users. When they get hired they already prefer MS solutions they know since they were students.
- JohnHaugeland 4y agoHave you ever used colab? It's free
- rslyr633 4y ago>What motivation does another company have for creating this service? They won't need to create this deepfake training specifically, they just need to turn a blind eye to their existing hardware being applied this way. Three motivations come to mind: 1. It's a convenient selling point to grow the user base. "We give you complete freedom to run your models and don't spy on you like the other guys do! We will never stop you from doing things unless the government forces us to!" 2. It's an easy way to frontrun criminal activity that is poised to disrupt society in the near future. Hire a CEO with a cool sounding hacker name, advertise on a bunch of telegram groups, while secretly logging all identifiers and making all inputs/outputs searchable by law enforcement :) 3. By owning the data used to train and generate Deepfakes, you have a rich dataset that could be used academically or for training counter-models to detect future Deepfakes.
- JohnHaugeland 4y agoI feel like you're completely missing the point of what I said 1. Not really 2. What? 3. No you don't
- loo 4y ago> turns out that nature doesn't make SAAS E pur si existit.
- JohnHaugeland 4y agoQuidquid Latin dictum sit does not, it turns out, altum sonatur
- humanistbot 4y agoThey already exist. The market for SAAS Jupyter is already crowded. Azure Notebooks, Github Codespaces, Kaggle Kernels, AWS SageMaker, CoCalc, Datalore, Binder...
- machinekob 4y agoNot even one is close to colab yet (first of google TPU is only way to access GPT-like models for most people, second you can get pretty neat GPU for few dollars when on other platforms you are paying a ton of money for that)