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I am glad for the OpenAI team for such advancement and how fast they integrated with several other partners (Microsoft, Duolingo); but at the same time I think
by braza 4y ago
I am glad for the OpenAI team for such advancement and how fast they integrated with several other partners (Microsoft, Duolingo); but at the same time I think the “regular” academia (ie universities and research institutes) lost the train for this kind of research (some can call academic engineering).
I know that the academia is doing a great job in AI with base research (eg Stable Diffusion) but seeing those new platforms doing this great work behind close doors and source is something not great.
I do not know if the answer would be some kind of CERN or ISS for this kind of thing.
- zamnos 4y agoExcept that Stable Diffusion only came about because of Stability.ai and Emad's sponsorship, so I don't know that I'd use that as an example of a success by academia. It's true that the people who made it are academics, but that's to say they weren't hedge fund managers with a couple hundred thousand dollars to burn on a GPU cluster. The government and by extension its people needs to want to throw a lot more money at open ended research if we want science to be able to progress at the hands of academics and not corporations.