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Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
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Re: Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
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DeepMind, and by extension AlphaGo, AlphaFold, AlphaStar, AlphaCode. Google Brain, and by extension the Transformer model (~which is the T in GPT~ my bad, it's Generative PreTraining, not General Purpose Transformer), and TensorFlow. Waymo, which is rolling out robotaxis in a few places. Not sure which department or subsidiary is responsible for their TPUs, the Sycamore 53-qbit quantum processor, or LaMDA.
I have not used any of those. Waymo, ok, I don't live in that area. How can I try any of the other projects you listed?
For example,
pip install tensorflow
https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/tpus
Most of what I listed is groundbreaking research, not consumer stuff. For the consumer stuff, try e.g. searching images by description in the default Android app, or Google Translate, or the automated transcriptions on YouTube. Apple also does similar things, as stuff like that is what consumer AI looks like these days.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have not used any of those. Waymo, ok, I don't live in that area. How can I try any of the other projects you listed?
That's the difference, google is shy to open any of their AI projects.
Probably for a good reason? I was browsing thru their AI responsibilities page and was pleasantly surprised how comprehensive and well thought out it is.
Not sure if OpenAI and with the release of chatgpt has fully implemented their own call for responsible ai
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#164Great…now OpenAI will become Microsoft Cortana SkyNet ClosedAI. Somehow I doubt this will lead to a safe rollout of more and more advanced AI in the future.
There is no scenario in which rolling out AI will be safe. As soon as someone sees it can be done, they will do it, copy it, or acquire it. Acquisition by the unscrupulous is practically guaranteed because AI is practically guaranteed to be extremely profitable, and there are several unscrupulous entities with tens of billions of dollars.
The only force guiding us into the future is the economic force of the free market, and while that has worked very well in many domains, it is now showing that it can also guide us towards destruction. We already know technology is addictive, and this is the first step to taking it to the next level and taking us away from being human.
Just think about this for a moment. What are some of the most rewarding interactions you've had with people in the past year? Do you think very advanced AI (such as the next generation after ChatGPT) would have affected that?
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#165Question to AI/ML folks : Is there no comparable open source model? Is the future going to be controlled by big corporations who own the models themselves? If models are so computationally intensive to produce does it mean than the more computational power a company has the better its models will be?
Closest you can get is probably with Google T5-Flan [1].
It is not the size of the model or the text it was trained on that makes ChatGPT so performant. It is the additional human assisted training to make it respond well to instructions. Open source versions of that are just starting to see the light of day [2].
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#166I'm becoming convinced that the "Microsoft is a good guy now" narrative was just a narrative, they still are the same company they always were.
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VSCode, Minecraft, Teams. They have renewed their grip on several audiences.
Kids have moved on to Roblox, Minecraft is the old thing now. Roblox has far better monetized its game than Minecraft too (some might say Roblox has gone too far monetizing it). Minecraft has gone the way of every Microsoft acquisition--stagnated and bled talent while competitors continued to innovate.
The kids I see are done with Roblox and actually gone back to Minecraft.
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#168Does anybody else have the feeling "Microsoft is back"? With GitHub and OpenAI the have put their finger on two pretty significant new projects. What new things has Google come up with over the last 5 years?
DeepMind, and by extension AlphaGo, AlphaFold, AlphaStar, AlphaCode. Google Brain, and by extension the Transformer model (~which is the T in GPT~ my bad, it's Generative PreTraining, not General Purpose Transformer), and TensorFlow. Waymo, which is rolling out robotaxis in a few places. Not sure which department or subsidiary is responsible for their TPUs, the Sycamore 53-qbit quantum processor, or LaMDA.
None of this is a tangible product. It’s just talk from google. The research is real, but they aren’t translating it into anything useful
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#169I notice a few people lamenting that OpenAI will no longer be... open. But I have to wonder, in what sense is OpenAI open today ? In 2019, OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to for-profit. At that time, Microsoft invested US$1 billion into the company. OpenAI then announced its intention to commercially license its technologies.
Still more open than Google, Microsoft or DeepMind
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#170>The AI firm is currently raising funds at a $29 billion valuation.
>The tech-industry giant is ready to pay upwards of $10 billion for the acquisition [49%]
So Microsoft is undervaluing them, and also soaking up 75% of profit until their investment is paid back? Seems like a bad deal.