News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models. Parent comment

Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by ar9av on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:46AM (#35270640)
I saw this coming a long time ago and I'm still very pissed off. For three reasons:

1. We are all forced to use the damn "chat" API instead of regular completions. Can't wait to have to deal with chatgpt's conversations in order to get a few lines of code out 2. We loose the super valuable 'insert' and 'edit' modes, which were great for code 3. 3-day notice period? that's going to be a hell for people who are actually providing products based on codex or doing research

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by mcaledonensis on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:40AM (#35270859)
It's not like what OpenAI did was an impossible magic trick. They've had exactly three insights. And a right team composition. Repeat that, you'll have GPT 4. You will not have GPT 5 though ;)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by jiggywiggy on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:57AM (#35271666)
Its not interesting. It's a hack to have a don't be evil vibe and keeping the name "open" while they go against their own foundational principles.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by KyeRussell on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:39AM (#35272218)
You aren’t providing any sort of valuable insight here. This is more indicative of your priors than anything else. Everyone has heard this argument. The people that believe it, believe it. The people that don’t, don’t.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by jiggywiggy on Sunday March 26, 2023 @12:26PM (#35316272)
The initial goal was to make ai available to everyone. In the process of getting enough funds to build their vision they gave it to Microsoft.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by whym on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:00AM (#35271679)
From WordNet:

> 1. skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous -- (unpredictably excitable (especially of horses))

(I didn't know the word skittish, and I figured this might help others, too.)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by selfhoster11 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:14AM (#35273505)
Lots of people complain about Apple being skittish (including HN comment section), but they also expect them to pull a stunt every once in a while. OpenAI was an unknown quantity until now.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by nunodonato on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:43AM (#35272244)
dude why are you copy and pasting my comments from other threads?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by SalmoShalazar on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:15AM (#35273509)
Did they actually plagiarize a comment you’ve made previously?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by inquist on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:46AM (#35273872)
I searched and didn’t find any identical prior comment
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by nunodonato on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:11AM (#35286747)
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/11xbe9o/comment/jd2...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by dizhn on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:26PM (#35293448)
Is it a bot? were you able to figure anything out?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by nunodonato on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:09PM (#35294754)
no idea, but its funny how it/he/she fetched the comment a similar reddit discussion and pasted it here...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by MichaelZuo on Sunday March 26, 2023 @10:19AM (#35314711)
So this 'ar9av' is a bot reposting comments or a troll?

Wonder if dang could take a look at this.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by nunodonato on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:11AM (#35286745)
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/11xbe9o/comment/jd2...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by aleksanderhan on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:10AM (#35273452)
Nobody are forced to anything. You don't have to use openai services if you don't want to...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on languag... by selfhoster11 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:17AM (#35273526)
> Nobody are forced to anything. You don't have to use a smartphone if you don't want to...

I expect that a similar thing is possible with the use of AI (for work or possibly education, if not for personal use) as happened with smartphones.

[ Parent | on HN ]