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OpenAI's GPT-3 Gets a Little Bit More Open (axios.com) 20

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
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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  • Oh look.. (Score:4, Informative)

    by Junta ( 36770 ) on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:53AM (#61999325)

    An 'Open' project where you aren't allowed to download to self-host, let alone redistribute. Strange definition of 'Open' here.

    • Earlier iterations of this tech got bad press almost immediately for being racist etc. The threat of this going up in a political conflagration at any moment resulting in financial penalties or regulation is very real. So, it will not be open.

    • 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.

    • 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

      • I was following you on the "they did it for the money" interpretation until Elon Musk was introduced in your comment as the ethical protestor against doing stuff just for the money. He has been noticeably quiet after moving his companies to a state governed by right-wing extremists that also charges no income tax.

        • 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.

          • I don't think Musk is a right-wing extremist. I think he is tolerating and even enabling right-wing extremists because it's convenient to his quest for money.

            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.

    • Yay! They finally got to "free, as in free beer"

  • Safety features? (Score:3)

    by anonymous scaredycat ( 7362120 ) on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:03PM (#61999367)
    Are these safety features to prevent skynet or swearing?
    • Found it:

      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.

      • So it's to prevent freedom of speech then.

        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?

        • Re: (Score:3)

          by Junta ( 36770 )

          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.

        • If someone sold you a pen and told you what you were allowed/not allowed to write with it would that be ok?
          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?

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by bws111 ( 1216812 )

            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?

        • >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.

          Unde

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