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Care to elaborate? Microsoft funding OpenAI doesn’t grant them right to just grab intellectual properties.
by xiwenc 3y ago
Care to elaborate? Microsoft funding OpenAI doesn’t grant them right to just grab intellectual properties.
- quotemstr 3y agoMicrosoft's deal with OpenAI grants Microsoft access to OpenAI's technology --- at least until AGI arrives
- mullingitover 3y agoThis is like a spacecraft research nonprofit working on faster than light travel promising Boeing 100% of the rights to any of their technology that's sub-light speed. I give even odds that they'll never achieve "AGI," or when it happens it'll be an incremental gain made by simply wiring existing technologies together that'll be obvious to any engineer competent in the field and thus easily duplicated.
- bagels 3y agoHow is it decided that "AGI" has arrived?
- quotemstr 3y agoThe OpenAI nonprofit board does, AIUI. That means OpenAI can, in theory, cut off everything from this day forward (by declaring GPT-5 or whatever as "AGI"), but they can't cut off access to GPT-4.
- tempusalaria 3y agoMicrosoft also doesn’t give many GPUs to internal researchers so this has a long way to run yet. Wouldn’t surprise me if Sam and Greg are back on the startup path by week end. This just seems like PR to give MS a way to paper things over after such an abrupt firing.
- alsodumb 3y agoWhat makes you think it wouldn't change after Sam and Greg join the team? AFAIK the reason Microsoft scaled down their research division (including GPUs) was because they were no where close to OpenAI despite years of investment.
- tempusalaria 3y agoNot true MSFT has never given good GPUs hence why they never published any SOTA challenging models
- quotemstr 3y agoSam is coming on as the CEO of a whole new group. This is like Cruise. Very exciting.
- AbrahamParangi 3y agoWeights are not intellectual property.
- siva7 3y agoIt does except for the AGI. That was part of the multi-billion deal with Microsoft.
- ascorbic 3y agoI don't know the full details, but their licence is clearly quite broad, as well as being exclusive and irrevocable.