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When the tech is open sourced, the product managers get to shine. Requiring less engineering skill to pull off something means a wider range of product people (
by dzink 4y ago
When the tech is open sourced, the product managers get to shine. Requiring less engineering skill to pull off something means a wider range of product people (founders, marketers, corporate product managers) get to show their skills in finding product market fit in more niches. Starting a business around Excel was not a bad idea at all. OpenAI is becoming the Fairchild of our time - keeping things closed has triggered an exodus of brains and open source activity that creates the cambrian explosion. If they keep up with their strategy, they would become the marketers of tech that is commercialized by open source instead.
- theGnuMe 4y agoI don't think OpenAI being open source would have made much of a difference. The AI cat has been out of the bag so open source models and tools would have come anyway. Once the idea is out there it's only a matter of time. The only people keeping some AI secrets secret would be quants and perhaps the NSA. Also the ArXiv literature explosion is proof of the Cambrian explosion. Training the damn things though, that's the tricky part. I want to build products on your platform as that's where the money is.