3 ms·
It's "open" relative to all of the research being IP of Google and FB. They pulled researchers into their own org and out of FAANG which I think was part of th
by gonehome 4y ago
It's "open" relative to all of the research being IP of Google and FB.
They pulled researchers into their own org and out of FAANG which I think was part of the motivation. They pitched it as open to the public, but I'm not sure that's what it was.
I think opinions also changed because of goal alignment and AGI safety ideas becoming better understood.
- Der_Einzige 4y agoFAANG engineers usually publish their research in top NLP conferences ran by the ACL, which forces all published papers to have a permissive license and highly incentives people to contribute code along with the paper for reproducibility reasons. You don't know what you're talking about. OpenAI has done a lot of self publishing/arxiv to avoid getting slammed in peer review by the fact that none of what they have is open source.
- jefftk 4y ago> what they have is open source How is https://github.com/openai/whisper https://github.com/openai/whisper not open source?
- Der_Einzige 4y agoThat's the only thing they open sourced. Also not NLP. That's speech to text.
- jefftk 4y agoHow is speech to text (speech recognition) not NLP? I used to work in NLP and the team next to me worked in speech to text. Though this was a decade ago and maybe terms have drifted? But it's listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing#Common_NLP_tasks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing#Co...