[HN Gopher] Why Open Source AI Will Win
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       Why Open Source AI Will Win
        
       Author : nocturnalowl
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-09-21 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | jqpabc123 wrote:
       | Why Open Source AI won't win --- because "Big Tech" is working
       | hard to convince technical incompetents in government that AI is
       | dangerous and needs to be "regulated" and "licensed".
        
         | dragonwriter wrote:
         | No, that's why it will take open source AI _longer_ to win than
         | it should.
        
           | jqpabc123 wrote:
           | Money talks.
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           | And Open Source has none.
        
             | dragonwriter wrote:
             | Where do you think open source AI models and frameworks
             | come from, magical moneyless communist computing fairies?
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             | They come from big businesses who see open source as the
             | most effective way of reaching their goals, and as more of
             | the tech filters out around the world, that will continue
             | to be the case even if regulation makes that less useful in
             | some juriadictions, making both open source in those
             | jurisidctions and the firms that see their benefit in it
             | less competitive.
        
         | circuit10 wrote:
         | I think it can be dangerous if it gets too powerful, but
         | licensing won't help because no one knows how you'd keep it
         | under control yet and stopping open source AI would just hurt
         | attempts to understand and research it
        
       | xt00 wrote:
       | "If you're building an AI native product, your primary goal is
       | getting off of OpenAI as soon as you possibly can."
       | 
       | Right now you essentially have:
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       | Customer -> business -> open-ai -> microsoft_azure
       | 
       | Where-as many companies don't have this extra middle-man like
       | this now -- they are more used to this type of situation:
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       | Customer -> business -> microsoft_azure
       | 
       | Hmm.. :-) seems like microsoft just absorbing the tech of open_ai
       | into a set of models that you can use / train on etc into azure
       | proper and forget about the middle man is likely the end game
       | here.
        
       | phone8675309 wrote:
       | The moat isn't the code, it's the obscene amount and expense of
       | resources needed to actually do the training.
       | 
       | In that way, it makes sense to just release it under a permissive
       | license because there's still a massive cost to use it.
        
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