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Nah, the point is that if models are commoditized and there's no hope of making significant profits, no one is going to be willing to make the massive investmen
by aesthesia 3mo ago
Nah, the point is that if models are commoditized and there's no hope of making significant profits, no one is going to be willing to make the massive investments necessary to continue pushing the scale frontier. How large a training run do you expect investors to fund out of the goodness of their hearts?
- protocolture 3mo agoThe real problem is that I could probably solve even biggerer issues if the investment went to me instead of OpenAI, so OpenAI has a moral imperative to shut down and send me all their money right now.
- twelvedogs 3mo agowhat good does it do to invest in a solved problem? if open models are good enough then it doesn't matter, if they aren't then there's probably a return available in investing there.
- lenkite 3mo agoDoesn't this merely mean that states will do the job of investment ?
- wayeq 3mo ago> no one is going to be willing to make the massive investments necessary to continue pushing the scale frontier. that sounds great to me. anything that slows down the pace and gives us a chance to prepare for, at best, massive job displacement, and at worst, robots turning us all into paperclips.