OpenAI's GPT-3 Gets a Little Bit More Open (axios.com) 20
The artificial intelligence research company OpenAI will eliminate the waiting list for access to the API of its natural language processing program (NLP) GPT-3. From a report: The move will accelerate access to the world's best-known reading and writing AI model, and is a sign that OpenAI believes the program is safe enough -- and can be monitored sufficiently -- to be disseminated more widely. Developers from supported countries will be able to sign up to access GPT-3's API and begin experimenting immediately, OpenAI said in an announcement Thursday morning. Previously developers had to sit on a waiting list as OpenAI reviewed them before they could even get experimental access. "We've added a lot of improvements across our API and added a number of safety features," says Peter Welinder, VP of products and partnerships at OpenAI. "We think a lot of value can come from getting more developers to build solutions to problems that they see in their environments."
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An 'Open' project where you aren't allowed to download to self-host, let alone redistribute. Strange definition of 'Open' here.
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Fine, but they should change their name as they are no longer pursuing an open approach.
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Maybe somebody can leak the source
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The actual open version is GPT-J tho you need to use a 30 day trial tpu from Google or massive memory / CPU to run it. It is amazing to play with.
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An 'Open' project where you aren't allowed to download to self-host, let alone redistribute. Strange definition of 'Open' here.
OpenAI ceased to be open when they switched to being a for profit company. This isn't some sort of opinion, it was the first change they made.
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Come on, you sound like a conspiracy theorist. It's purely a coincidence that the most profitable course of action is the one they took! 100% coincidence. Absolutely no chance that they realized they could make billions of dollars with private contracting if they kept GPT-3 closed. Absolutely no chance that the former CIA officer, Will Hurd, they just hired onto their board was chosen for any reason other than he's the best man for the job. I'm sick of all these conspiracy theorists claiming that Sam Altman
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And yet Elon Musk left the project once they stopped being open.
Elon Musk, who you think is a right-wing extremist motivated by greed. Said OpenAI wasn't open enough and wasn't following the mission statement, and left.
And you think that's somehow an indictment of Musk and not a massive indictment of "Open" AI.
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He's smart and can make clever plays. For him to abandon OpenAI proclaiming it to not be open enough is likely a cover rationale for some other complaint he had related to diminished future commercialization benefits to himself. I just don't take his statements at face value.
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Yet you have no other explanation other than "right wing bad"
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Yay! They finally got to "free, as in free beer"
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OpenAI has also updated its community guidelines, which ban hate, content that attempts to influence the political process, and all adult content excluding sex education or wellness.
So it's to prevent freedom of speech then.
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It's their software, they can make whatever rules they want. The First Amendment is only in regard to the government.
So tell us, did you not know that, or knew that and deliberately said something stupid to make yourself seem edgy?
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It can be argued that it's ok/correct for them to handle their software in this manner, but to call it 'OpenAI' is acting in bad faith.
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What about if all pen makers did this?
Why have you brought up the first amendment to the US constitution, I never mentioned it?
Do you think the US government is the only threat to freedom of speech?
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If you BUY a pen it becomes your property, and you can do what you want with it. OpenAI is NOT your property, it is someone else's. Or would you be OK with someone using your car (by painting it) for a 'speech' they wanted to make? After all, you wouldn't want to interfere with their freedom of speech, right?
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That is why it is not Open.
Open standards are publicly documented.
This, you have to make an agreement just to get to an API.
OpenAI is a closed system.
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>Freedom of speech doesn't exist because this isn't a First Amendment issue
That's an idiotic argument, and seems to be yours.
Since you're on this site, I assume you know the difference between "free as in freedom" and "free as in beer," right? Well, think of it like that. The First Amendment ensures the principle of freedom of speech for the US government. But that doesn't mean that freedom of speech IS the First Amendment.
If you need another analogy, oranges are fruit, but not all fruit are oranges.
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