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> So how about the following compromise: promote innovation by liberalizing the posture around training on roughly “the commons”, but insist that the resulting
by golergka 2y ago
> So how about the following compromise: promote innovation by liberalizing the posture around training on roughly “the commons”, but insist that the resulting weights are likewise available to the public.
How much would you personally invest in a startup which would spend billions of dollars on a compute cluster only to release the weights publicly after the training is complete?
- mistrial9 2y agothink of the Investors !
- __loam 2y agoHe's making a good point. 100m was invested in stability. They are out of money with no clear path to product market fit after giving their model away for free. I'm personally ecstatic that they failed but it is worth asking about the value this technology is producing compared to the cost.
- golergka 2y agoI really appreciate that retired teachers and miners have something to live on, yes.
- jampekka 2y agoI'm gladly investing portion of my wages to such efforts, alongside e.g. education, healthcare, childcare and infrastructure. And I don't even want any monetary ROI from my investment!
- golergka 2y agoSo your plan is to regulate it into complete commercial unviability, where the only source of funding were government bureaucrats? How often does this strategy pay off?