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That, and everything getting moved behind closed doors (much like all of Google's AI work).
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Is it possible, maybe, that it's not "some stupid people" with "much importance" - but actually the average person doesn't want technology to vocally support neo-nazis? To be honest I don't really care either way (at least in this case), but I see people making this argument always act like it's a few elites ruining the world and it's impossible that the average person doesn't 100% agree with them.
Why does it always jump straight to white supremacy and Neo-Nazism? There's a lot of area in there that is being ignored and/or casually dismissed. It's not an honest discussion.
Does 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?
B) Microsoft did not create GitHub or OpenAI.
C) Both Google and Microsoft have many significant research and development outcomes and acquisitions over the last five years.
Question 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?
The closest open source contender is BLOOM: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom . It has an almost identical architecture to GPT-3 (hence, to ChatGPT), and in particular the same number of parameters (175B). It was also trained on a similar amount of data, as far as we can know. Still, it's not like you can just "download it and run it", even just to _load_ the model into memory you need ~400GB of memory, to run…
The non-finetuned BLOOM does not appear favorably (in English) compared to GLM or OPT, which both have published weights: https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/v0.1.0/?group=mmlu and Flan-T5 is above OPT-IML: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.12017.pdf
> Is the future going to be controlled by big corporations who own the models themselves?
On this subject, there is an effort stemming from BigScience to build an open, distributed inference network, so that people that don’t have enough GPUs at home can contribute theirs and get text generation at one word per second: https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals#how-does-it-wo...
Question 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?
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Why does it always jump straight to white supremacy and Neo-Nazism? There's a lot of area in there that is being ignored and/or casually dismissed. It's not an honest discussion.
Maybe the people involved are not old enough to ever have heard about Godwin's law? Its now 25 years ago that UseNet users have discovered this. I guess HN still needs a few years to get there.
I guess they still need a few years to get there.
I'm seeing a lot of responses that see ChatGPT replacing Google, and it's unclear to me how? It can replace queries like "what's the tallest mountain in France", but that's not really a profitable query for Google. Whereas it's unclear to me how it replaces "best vegetarian restaurants in Gastown". It can string together a coherent statement, but then I have to go search to see whether it actually recommended vegetar…
"best vegetarian restaurants in Gastown": the results actually seemed pretty good: The Acorn The Naam Chau Veggie Express The Essential The Wilder Snail I mean, yeah, it doesn't cite sources. So if you want to check the results you have to do that with a traditional search engine. But that will only be an issue while the results aren't good enough to trust by default.
- The Acorn: Not in Gastown. In South Main.
- The Naam: Not in Gastown. In Kitsilano.
- Chau Veggie Express: Not in Gastown. In Granville Island.
- The Essential: Doesn't exist.
- The Wilder Snail: Not a restaurant, not vegetarian, not in Gastown. In Japantown, which is at least walkable from Gastown.
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I think it's still crazy that in 2022 the fact that some stupid people can be offended by that have that much importance.
Is it possible, maybe, that it's not "some stupid people" with "much importance" - but actually the average person doesn't want technology to vocally support neo-nazis? To be honest I don't really care either way (at least in this case), but I see people making this argument always act like it's a few elites ruining the world and it's impossible that the average person doesn't 100% agree with them.
When we suddenly decide to give our tools the power to refuse us, based on some whim of those with power in society, we'd best be prepared for when it turns out we signed off on some great evils.