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by tmoney1818 2242 days ago
"the top-level prior has 5 billion parameters and is trained on 512 V100s for 4 weeks"

If they used on-demand AWS instances, it would cost about 1,342,623 USD to train the top-level prior. So much for reproducing this work.

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We release our model weights and code here https://github.com/openai/jukebox/, so you can directly build on top of them and don’t have to train from scratch
So, the music that I know the most about is dance music and all of your examples from that genre seems to have completely missed the four to the floor beat that characterizes those artists — any theory as to why that is? You’d think that the loop based repetitive nature of edm would make it simple for an ai to mimic.
My only question with OpenAI is whether they will forever-more take existing AI research, throw $100,000s of dollars at it in training, then take credit for inventing intelligence
I mean if they’re properly citing their sources I think it’s useful to have someone throw lots of compute at things and see what happens.