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Interesting, but ultimately irrelevant, discussion. AI licensing is just evil megacorp's attempt to strangle the nascent AI industry, because they are quickly l
by discardedrefuse 3y ago
Interesting, but ultimately irrelevant, discussion. AI licensing is just evil megacorp's attempt to strangle the nascent AI industry, because they are quickly losing dominance, and maybe even relevance. Every logical argument you throw falls on deaf ears. Their reasons for pushing licensing are not based on good faith.
It was only 6 moths ago that Microsoft invested $10,000,000,000 into OpenAI. At the time, their product was davinci-003 (aka gpt-3). Now, anyone can run inference at that level at home. You really think Microsoft is going to just sit there and take the loss on that $10B gamble?
- jeremyjh 3y agoThey didn’t pay 10B for the model, but for the market potential of the company creating it, and their human capital. I think calling this a bad bet is … premature to say the least.
- discardedrefuse 3y agoObviously they paid for the whole enchilada. My point is that last year only the richest megacorps could afford to run these models. The industry was self-selecting in their favor. I think no one predicted just how fast we would blow through those hardware barriers. And now they're scrambling to throw up new, regulatory barriers to maintain market share. OpenAI's behavior is nothing more than rent-seeking. And I guess I'm just kinda tired of seeing all this discussion on the topic of licensing like its anything other.