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IMO established companies (Meta, Google, etc) had their researchers publish papers as a competitive benefit or way to attract talent from academia (a researcher
by cardosof 4y ago
IMO established companies (Meta, Google, etc) had their researchers publish papers as a competitive benefit or way to attract talent from academia (a researcher wouldn't want to stop publishing).
Companies didn't see an issue with doing that because those papers were not "giving away" the core of the company, for example, Facebook's DeepFace paper from 2014 couldn't hurt its ad business.
OpenAI on the other hand will probably be as closed as they can be with their LLMs.
- aliston 4y agoIt will be really interesting to see if Google, Facebook etc. become more closed as a result. There was already a lot made of the fact that OpenAI hired away a group of engineers from DeepMind to get GPT out the door. With these LLMs and the secret sauce behind them is becoming less of an academic endeavor and more of a commercial one, perhaps its an inevitable next step.
- blendergeek 4y ago> OpenAI on the other hand will probably be as closed as they can be with their LLMs. The irony is thick in that statement.
- mach1ne 4y agoYes, instead of advancing humanity, they are doing their absolute best to hinder it. Their scumminess becomes naked if you disconnect your perspective by thinking Earth an alien planet.
- asteroidz 4y agoYep, and that's the difference between a big profitable company doing research as a side-hustle, and a company whose business IS the research. One interesting and somewhat scary exception seems to be Microsoft; they seem to be converting a lot of their recent research projects into commercial value.