Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cartercole 2672 days ago
release the code! you cant stop the signal
2 comments

The code is out (https://github.com/openai/gpt-2), just not the larger model itself.
Saying 'the code is out' is a little misleading. It's some supporting code for working with a trained model, and a model definition of what is already a standard and widely-implemented architecture. It doesn't include the dataset, the code used to construct the dataset, or perhaps most importantly of all, the code to train a model on a fleet of TPUv3s.
They already released the code and that wasn’t enough for people.
It's like releasing a car without giving access to the specific fuel needed to run it.
The smaller model is out so you can test drive it, but you won't be able to hit 100mph.