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Well, Google could have easily not have shared its technology. However, the bloat problem you’ve described are difficult problems to solve, and are to some deg

• potatolicious 4y ago
  > "Well, Google could have easily not have shared its technology." Sure, but the idea is that if they didn't share their technology, they'd still be in the same spot: they would have invented transformers and still not shipped major products around it. Sure maybe OpenAI won't exist, but competitors will find other ways to compete. They always do. So at best they are very very slightly better off than the alternative, but being secretive IMO wouldn't have been a major change to their market position. Meanwhile, if Google was better at productizing its research, it matters relatively little what they give away. They would be first to market with best-in-class products, the fact that there would be a litany of clones would be a minor annoyance at best.
  • asdfman123 4y ago
    True, but they only feel the fire now, and you can tell they’re rapidly trying to productionalize stuff like you’ve described. It will take time though. They were too risk averse before.
  • aflag 4y ago
    Also, these things are not secret for a very long time and eventually other people figure out (completely independently or maybe even influenced by some google's ex-employee). Then, they wouldn't even be able to say they invented it.