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You could say that if you "believed" you could build it from scratch. It doesn't mean they actually own the existing IP although rubes thinking about buying MS
by peteradio 3y ago
You could say that if you "believed" you could build it from scratch. It doesn't mean they actually own the existing IP although rubes thinking about buying MSFT may think so.
- adastra22 3y agoIt appears they have an exclusive, irrevocable license to the existing IP. They have the GPT-4 weights, and the legal right to use them however they see fit. That's the deal with the devil OpenAI made.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> It appears they have an exclusive, irrevocable license to the existing IP. Appears from what? I've seen this stated several times, usually citing nothing and occasionally citing a Nadella statement from which it would be a very tenuous inference.
- adastra22 3y agoNon-contradicted statements made multiple times by Microsoft both now and prior to this brouhaha.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Non-contradicted statements made multiple times by Microsoft both now and prior to this brouhaha. The statements I've seen don't match what is claimed, which is why I asked for one that did.
- threeseed 3y agoIt really derives from logic: a) If it wasn't exclusive then we would have seen some other product besides Bing with this technology by now. b) Satya has specifically stated that in the event of a breach in contract with OpenAI they have the ability to use the IP to continue development. That clearly indicates it is irrevocable.
- peteradio 3y agoWhoa GPT-4 weights! Stop the presses. That is an artifact of the process. They have license to play the game but don't have the IP to make the game.
- adastra22 3y agoAccording to non-contradicted statements from Satya, they have full, exclusive, irrevocable licenses to the IP.