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Re:OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over by potamic on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:51AM (#35611529)
Doesn't Google have any patents on the transformer architecture? I assume large enterprises tend to patent everything that comes out of their research.
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Re:OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over by chaoz_ on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:08AM (#35612401)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10452978B2/en

GPT models are based on transformer, but architecture is different from what's patented.

Not a lawyer, but can you really patent certain network architecture? Theoretically someone could invent new activation function that just happens to make same architecture perform a lot better on some tasks, can you call really cover that with patent?

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