Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI?

Posted by teekert on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:46AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Somehow the name suggested to me that I could find ways to reproduce the model. I understand that it is huge and probably undoable for a single person without large amounts of resources, but it still annoys me that the term "open" is (ab)used in this way.

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by rebreak on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:27AM (#34243682)

One could say they are being cautious since It's a very novel technology open for misuse. And profit. You don't just release complex, highly capable models for charity. They are a for-profit company after all. It is a business they have the right to use their edge for profit. Also they are not as closed. They offer APIs for many products and some other ones outright release their sources (especially whisper, a godsent gift for me). Unlike Google's AI research which one commenter pointed out.

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by satya71 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:56AM (#34243488)

They are open as in you can actually use it, in contrast to Google's LLM that you can only read about in papers.

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by teekert on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:03AM (#34243531)

Yeah, but come on, in the software world I'd say "open" stands for something, quite specifically.

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by satya71 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:37AM (#34244428)

May be, but there are other “open” companies. Opendoor, OpenText, OpenGov.

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by teekert on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:49AM (#34244497)

Ok true. At least they are not called LibreAI.

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by philip142au on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:54AM (#34243477)

Open AI sounds better than closed AI like Potato chips rather than Heart attack salty greasy crunchers

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by rvz on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:27AM (#34243681)

It's as open as a black box. OpenAI has always been a for profit scam the moment they got a cash investment from Microsoft and other VCs.

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by joshxyz on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:41AM (#34244445)

Open as in free trial. Great progress in their tech and documentation though.

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Re:Ask HN: What's open about OpenAI? by ramoz on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:00AM (#34245016)

They’ve sparked plenty of open source, do your research if you care. Regardless, OpenAI owes nothing to anyone.

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