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> Meanwhile, the profits will accrue to the true beneficiaries: 1) the algorithm owners, OpenAI [...] This seems incorrect to me. The crucial parts have been
by andybak 4y ago
> Meanwhile, the profits will accrue to the true beneficiaries: 1) the algorithm owners, OpenAI [...]
This seems incorrect to me. The crucial parts have been reimplemented. The weights are their only secret sauce and equally good free replacements are only a matter of time.
- visarga 4y agoI agree, they get replicated fast. But large language models also have a democratising effect even when they are under paid API - they are lowering the barrier to many NLP tasks. They take skills from the internet and repackage them in useful and customised forms. This means the benefit is really being spread around to everyone building on them, they can build in a day what used to take a month or a year. I see them as "open sourcing" all these previously hard to access AI skills. I see LLMs as part of a wider trend - we used to transmit information orally, then we invented writing, then printing, then media and internet. Now we can transmit the distillation of our whole culture as a model, it can be applied directly to solve problems. It's the next step in the propagation of culture.