I think GPT-3's private beta distribution strategy widens economic inequality

Re:I think GPT-3's private beta distribution strategy widens... by casefields on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:27PM (#25547301)

[2015] Founded as a non-profit, designed to democratize and share research benefiting humanity

[2018] Releases GPT, open sourcing code and paper

[2019] Shares info on GPT-2, doesn't release out of concerns about "malicious applications"

[2019] Changes structure to a for-profit* company

[2020] Shares info on GPT-3, commercializes model via closed API

[2020] Exclusively licenses their GPT-3 model to Microsoft

They should just change their name to ClosedAI.

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Re:I think GPT-3's private beta distribution strategy widens... by p1esk on Sunday December 27, 2020 @05:40AM (#25550173)

They shared enough details about their research to reproduce it. Have they ever promised anything more than that?

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