Just so you know, for GPT-3, Microsoft is going to be the exclusive licensee of the API: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-...
Um, as an outside observer, what is Open about this OpenAI GPT-3 then if they’re selling exclusive rights?
Re:Yann LeCun on GPT-3
by sillysaurusx on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:04PM
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They were forced to give Microsoft exclusive access, because it was one of the terms of Microsoft's billion-dollar cloud credit investment.
But you can't pay employees with cloud credits, so time will tell whether it was a correct decision. (It probably was. And I exaggerate slightly; the investment included a substantial sum of real dollars too. But most people see that billion dollar investment and think it's all dollars, when in fact it was largely credits.)
Is that only for GPT-3? Or for everything they produce?
Re:Yann LeCun on GPT-3
by sillysaurusx on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:17PM
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I don't know for certain, but it was probably everything. The investment was vital.
My understanding is that the exclusivity is with regard to the code, the API will still be offered to the public.
If you think this isn’t a concern, I’ve already seen it happen with my own eyes, rather than hearing about it second hand. They encouraged someone to make a writing tool. That someone then spent roughly six weeks prototyping, iterating, and giving constant feedback. All signals from OpenAI were “Yes, awesome!”
Then one day they simply declined to let them ship. Anything. Anything even resembling “a tool to generate huge quantities of outputs.” Which was, you know, the whole point.
You play, you pay. And I hope you’re ready to pay, because you won’t have your magical genie unless the magical genie’s caretakers believe you are sufficiently worthy.
I cloned as much of OpenAI’s API as I could: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1312299759592333318?s=2...
All that’s left is to reproduce a substantially similar model. Which is doable, but will take time. In the meantime, tread carefully.