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The patent was granted in 2019. The patented architecture is the Transformer architecture that everyone and their mom is now using for LLMs. Patents in your por
by gerash 3y ago
The patent was granted in 2019. The patented architecture is the Transformer architecture that everyone and their mom is now using for LLMs. Patents in your portfolio help defend against trolls and other hostile entities.
- tough 3y agoLet's hope Google doesn't become the Troll here
- lettergram 3y agoIs it really trolling if you’re utilizing the tech and someone is infringing?
- mabbo 3y agoConsider Amazon One-click purchase. That patent was one of very few (out of tens of thousands) that they defended heavily. Every other company on the planet had to have at least two steps to purchase an item or Amazon would come knocking with lawyers. They did this until the day that patent finally expired. One has to ask: was that to the benefit of society? Google may make good use of this tech. But it would be better for all of us if everyone did and didn't have to pay them a fee for the privilege.
- amelius 3y ago> Google may make good use of this tech. But it would be better for all of us if everyone did and didn't have to pay them a fee for the privilege. This is reverse logic because then Google would not have published the tech and would have kept it a trade secret.
- lettergram 3y ago100% it’s probably worth it in the end. You quite literally may not have had Amazon without it. In this case, google might not have funded the development of transformers which could dramatically reduce costs of everything for humanity. Same goes for drug development. That said, I think there’s a question around software patents and how long they should last. Perhaps it should just be to recoup costs, plus some multiple. I’m not sure.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoDramatic reduction in cost strongly implies dramatic reduction in labor force. Not sure I'd bank that as desirable.
- maxbond 3y agoWe may not have had Amazon if other online stores had been allowed a one-click purchase flow? The lack of a second click was a unique innovation critical to their competitive advantage? That doesn't seem likely to me. And if it were true that Amazon was so vulnerable that checkout flow click parity would wipe them out, I hardly think the law should intercede to save them - that seems like a scenario where they had a bad business model.
- bsjaux628 3y agoSource? I went to a talk done by Amazon's longest serving IP lawyer and he explicitly called out that Amazon has only gone to court (or asserted its patent, can't remember the phrase) over a kindle related patent.
- anamexis 3y agoThey definitely sued Barnes & Noble for it - https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/amazoncom-and-barnes--noblecom-settle-1-click-patent-lawsuit https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/amazoncom-and-bar...
- cma 3y agoHave they released it open-source with a patent grant somewhere? As long as you derive from that...
- mort96 3y agoPatents also give Google the unjust power to crush its competition, should it so desire. But "don't be evil", right?