Yes, that's absolutely a good point worth repeating - Google is obviously under no obligation to publish anything or make any demos available. They can keep the

Yes, that's absolutely a good point worth repeating - Google is obviously under no obligation to publish anything or make any demos available. They can keep their research entirely proprietary if they want. There is maybe a question of whether this is what their researchers imagined, as many were brought to Google partly by the promise of being able to do their research in the open. But that's their problem. The link you posted seems to reinforce my point though. It's a reimplementation of DALL-E, not anything done by Google. That seems to be how it goes, everyone tries to duplicate the OpenAI work even though Google's models are (or claim to be) more advanced. The mindshare value of making their demos available appears to be phenomenal. Is it reproducible - well, only for flexible definitions of reproducible. If you try to follow the method in the paper and don't get results as good, is the issue the method or that you didn't follow it well enough? You can't follow it all that closely because they often aren't detailed enough and the training sets are constantly changing. The issue here (for Google) is a bit different. If they were keeping their research proprietary because they wanted to turn it into a product and sell it, that's one thing and totally understandable. It's very expensive and needs some way to financially justify the cost. Their justification is quite different though and raises questions about their whole AI initiative. What's the point of creating SOTA AI trained on the internet if you're afraid of what people will use it for? Their efforts to make ideologically acceptable AI don't seem to have worked yet, nor has OpenAI been embarrassed by abuse. So OpenAI is powering ahead here and everyone talks about their models, whilst Google's languish in obscurity. Like, Scott Alexander is talking about the limits of DALL-E 2 that Google claim they already solved, but it's irrelevant because Scott can play with DALL-E and not Imagen.