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It's a research paper, not a product. I don't know why you're against this, but I appreciate researchers that publish papers so knowledge isn't siloed in organi

• waffletower 3y ago
  Straw man, no where did I say that I am against the release of this paper. All I said that was that I don't understand how Google benefits, and I selfishly claimed that more of us could benefit if they created a product. The paper by itself is clearly a gift. I think ultimately it hurts Google to showcase research without product development -- and I also believe the trained model is squandered. If they aren't going to productize it, then they should leak or open source it in a LLaMA fashion. Why the waste? If this was truly a beneficent act somehow despite the weights being locked up in their cloud, where is the carbon footprint data for the training? StabilityAI reports such information for their model releases.
  • elderg 3y ago
    Google doesn't benefit from sharing. Humanity does. It was a beacon for mankind and will continue to be. As for how it can survive on this and how long it can survive on this... well, I guess that's largely depending on how bad sundar drives the company
    • Valgrim 3y ago
      It's not really sharing tough, is it? No source code, no models, no demo... just a couple pages of text, a couple of vague formulas, insufficient to reproduce results (which by the way should be the whole point of research papers). This is not sharing, this is just showing off.
• raincole 3y ago
  It's a landing page. The other 99.999% of research papers around the world don't have landing pages for a reason.
  • necroforest 3y ago
    Having a project page with extra results is very common in computer vision, even in academia.