[HN Gopher] Open Source AI Is Critical - Hugging Face CEO Before...
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       Open Source AI Is Critical - Hugging Face CEO Before US Congress
        
       Author : thibo_skabgia
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2023-06-27 22:21 UTC (40 minutes ago)
        
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       | smoldesu wrote:
       | Yeah, this is a perfect microcosm of how "the system" works. This
       | guy is right! He just got there too late, with too little money
       | and not enough fanfare.
       | 
       | Sam Altman, on the other hand? He's the figurehead of a consumer-
       | facing product with a brilliant marketing team and probably a
       | crack team of lobbyists to boot. He's got billions of dollars in
       | Microsoft funding and a product you can go use for free. All he's
       | got to do is roll in there first with an AI alarmist response and
       | convince lawmakers the state-of-the-art is dangerous. After all,
       | OpenAI is synonymous with SOTA, right? So we follow the industry
       | leaders, without really looking where they're headed. And now we
       | end up here.
       | 
       | Oh how I wish Open Source software was fairly represented in
       | court. But ideas don't pay for themselves, and money talks
       | _awful_ loud...
        
         | AnhTho_FR wrote:
         | Do you think it's really too late though? Aren't we just at the
         | beginnings?
        
           | smoldesu wrote:
           | In my opinion, it's definitely too late. ChatGPT is one of
           | the most well-marketed products of all time, and it frankly
           | didn't achieve all that much. It scaled up current SOTA and
           | put it behind a paywalled API, and the rest is history. It's
           | like the fountain of youth, a dream API for most developers.
           | Put something in, get something out. Whoever owns the
           | endpoint just _prints_ money.
           | 
           | Everything after this point will just be habitually
           | disappointing. Everything will be held to the impossibly high
           | standard of the first time you tried ChatGPT, not the more
           | realistic benchmarks of GPT-2, LLaMA, Bert, or even Talk-To-
           | Transformer. I don't think it will be possible to recapture
           | that magic, and Sam Altman was the first-mover on turning
           | that awe into fear.
        
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