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It's an obviously amazing research development. You just don't like AI. It can be used for training agents, prototyping, video generation, and is quite possib
by ilaksh 2y ago
It's an obviously amazing research development.
You just don't like AI.
It can be used for training agents, prototyping, video generation, and is quite possibly a glimpse of a whole new type of entertainment or a new way to create video games.
What's the point of the massive amount of money spent on video games in general? Or all of the energy spent moving people back and forth to an office? Or expensive meals at restaurants? Or trillions in weaponry? Or television shows or movies?
- nightski 2y agoVideo games bring billions of real people joy. This is sitting in some lab at Google inaccessible to anyone.
- lassenordahl 2y agoIs your argument that them sharing research progress and demos doesn't benefit anybody purely because we can't immediately play around with them? I feel like sharing early closed-source blog-posts is part of the research process. I'm sure someone in this thread has thought of a use case that the Google team missed. Open/closed source arguments here feel premature IMO.
- nightski 2y agoIt's not part of the research process. Being part of the search process would involve a publication and sharing code/data/results/methods. It's not research unless it can be verified by peers. This is just a marketing fluff piece that does not benefit anyone and is ego stroking at best.
- lassenordahl 2y agoHm yeah - I think you and I just have differing opinions on the research process. I'd be a bit more vague, and define the publication process as something similar to you. I still think things like this are important, and at least give folks a bit of time to ideate on what will be possible in a few years. Of course having the model or architecture on hand would be nice, but I'm not holding that against Google here.