How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?

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Post by prhrb » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:15 AM UTC

Re: How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?

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Post by greatpostman » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:32 AM UTC

Does it matter? Openai finally built something resembling ai. Big tech wasn’t innovating, I personally don’t care if employees at openai capture a ton of the upside

Re: How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?

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Post by fenomas » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:37 AM UTC

Question for someone who follows this space: are there any significant models/tech/etc that OpenAI has made open? Either before or after they changed business models. What they've kept private is well-known, but are there any checkboxes in the other column?

Re: How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?

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Post by kragen » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:39 AM UTC

fenomas wrote: post #3

Question for someone who follows this space: are there any significant models/tech/etc that OpenAI has made open? Either before or after they changed business models. What they've kept private is well-known, but are there any checkboxes in the other column?

whisper

Re: How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?

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Post by bingu » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:39 AM UTC

I thought it was so cool how a non-profit made one of the most game changing tech products in years. Then I was incredibly bummed when I realized they weren't a non profit anymore.

Re: How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?

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Post by polygamous_bat » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:40 AM UTC

fenomas wrote: post #3

Question for someone who follows this space: are there any significant models/tech/etc that OpenAI has made open? Either before or after they changed business models. What they've kept private is well-known, but are there any checkboxes in the other column?

Off the top of my head, CLIP the vision-language model, and Whisper, the audio to text model, have their trained weights and the architectures open. They did not open source the training dataset, although I fear it may be too much of an ask given all the possible legal issues.

Re: How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:40 AM UTC

fenomas wrote: post #3

Question for someone who follows this space: are there any significant models/tech/etc that OpenAI has made open? Either before or after they changed business models. What they've kept private is well-known, but are there any checkboxes in the other column?

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Post by isoprophlex » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:40 AM UTC

When I was a teenager, there was a local chain of record stores over here named "free record store"

But guess what, you couldn't just walk in, grab some CDs and walk out without paying.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:41 AM UTC

greatpostman wrote: post #2

Does it matter? Openai finally built something resembling ai. Big tech wasn’t innovating, I personally don’t care if employees at openai capture a ton of the upside

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Post by scottydog51834 » Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 5:41 AM UTC

fenomas wrote: post #3

Question for someone who follows this space: are there any significant models/tech/etc that OpenAI has made open? Either before or after they changed business models. What they've kept private is well-known, but are there any checkboxes in the other column?

GPT-2

Here is one cool (and recent) research project using GPT-2 model weights.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cgqh99SHsCv3jJYDS/we-found-a...