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Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by rcarmo »

aliljet wrote: post #14

I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

HN seldom bands together to do anything but quip at things, or discuss how it should have been done better. Oh, wait.

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by [deleted] »

aliljet wrote: post #14

I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

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Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by zer0-c00l »

aliljet wrote: post #14

I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

Why not you?

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by jeffbee »

aliljet wrote: post #14

I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

This isn’t folding@home. These models need as near to synchronous parameter updates as possible. You need a real facility to do this.

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by hiddencost »

aliljet wrote: post #14

I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

Take a peek at EleutherAI.

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by sho_hn »

rcarmo wrote: post #21
aliljet wrote: post #14

I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

HN seldom bands together to do anything but quip at things, or discuss how it should have been done better. Oh, wait.

More exciting software projects get started on 4chan than Hacker News.

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by SkyPuncher »

gajus wrote: post #7

Anyone know what is the origin of the name Bard? Every time I see it I think "barf"

I just can't imagine a less inspiring name. It feels like Bard was a joke, internal name. When OpenAI came out with their stuff, Google decided to rush this to market with little thought given to the branding.

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by janeway »

aliljet wrote: post #14

I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

Didn’t they spend hundreds of millions running the training data or something? How are some open-source hackers going to do it?

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by kristjansson »

aliljet wrote: post #14

I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

There are at least two completely open models comparably scaled to GPT-3, and at least one open distributed-hosting project.
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