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Will we? The resources to train these things, and to keep them up-to-date, seem like a pretty big moat that's likely to keep them owned by megacorps. [EDIT] I
by yamtaddle 4y ago
Will we? The resources to train these things, and to keep them up-to-date, seem like a pretty big moat that's likely to keep them owned by megacorps.
[EDIT] I don't (mostly) mean computing resources, but data. Including expensive, well-tagged sets.
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- londons_explore 4y agoSpeech recognition is a great analogue which is 10+ years ahead. Local speech recognition has been a thing for decades, then megacorps started to do online speech recognition with expensive-to-train models which worked better. Over time, both online and offline models have gotten better. But for most usecases, online models trained by megacorps still win.
- Tv9m 4y ago> But for most usecases, online models trained by megacorps still win. Whisper and whisper.cpp have gotten us close to the tipping point.