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This is not surprising but at the same time, sad news for the community. My thought is the following: I think this is partly thanks to closedAI (openAI) but a
by Alifatisk 4y ago
This is not surprising but at the same time, sad news for the community.
My thought is the following:
I think this is partly thanks to closedAI (openAI) but also partly Googles fault.
Google underestimated the Transformer model, closedAI did not and made something revolutionary with it, with little contribution back to the community (for example how little details they have given out regarding GPT-4).
Google realized this mistake and is now trying to catch up. They (Google) learned their lesson now.
My issue with this going forward is that Google might release some other powerful models / techniques as well and might underestimate them too, but this time, they will just collect dust somewhere in the dark.
- senttoschool 4y agoYea agreed. Thanks to OpenAI. Since OpenAI commercialized the technique but did not give back to the community, why should Google continue to publish their cutting edge research?
- Alifatisk 4y agoI sincerely hope this doesn't become a trend, it's dangerous and hurts the academic world a lot.
- elforce002 4y agoSadly, that's the new reality now. Since the cat is out of the box, AI openness is no more. ClosedAI killed it the moment they decided to go chase the bag. The scary part is everything from here will be ruled by money before anything else.
- tpoacher 4y agoOddly enough, it may also have the reverse effect. If the academic crowd stops relying on corporations and promote truly open/scalable tools, then this can start a virtuous cycle that promotes truly open solutions. Having said that, I wouldn't hold my breath with the current state of academia though.
- lenkite 4y agoFrankly, they should be litigated for using the word Open in their official name.