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It is going to be truly fucking revolutionary if open-source models are and continue to be able to challenge the state of the art. My big philosophical concern
by petesergeant 2y ago
It is going to be truly fucking revolutionary if open-source models are and continue to be able to challenge the state of the art. My big philosophical concern is that AI locks Capital into an absolutely supreme and insurmountable lead over Labour, and into the hands of oligarchs, and the possibility of a future where that's not case feels amazing. It pleases me greatly that this has Trump riled up too, because I think it means he's much less likely to allow existing US model-makers to build moats, as I think he's -- even as a man who I don't think believes in very much -- absolutely unwilling to let the Chinese get the drop on him over this.
- fullstackchris 2y agoI have no doubt open source will catch up (it already has, eh?) at the end of the day, it's just creative / new iterations on what is ultimately the transformer architecture... the amount of "secret" moat-like stuff that OpenAI was doing was bound to be figured out or exceeded eventually, like everything in tech... Not to make fun of OpenAI and the great work they've done but it's kinda like if I went out in the 90s and said I'm going to found a company to have the best REST APIs. You can always found a successful tech company, but you can't found a successful tech company on a technological architecture or pattern alone.