[Alifatisk]

Here’s the thing, if google didn’t publish this paper, it would probably just collect dust somewhere at Google.

OpenAi (ClosedAi) saw the potential and demonstrated its impressive and unbelievable capabilities!

If Google never shared the transformer model with the world, we would probably not have what we have today.

[hn_throwaway_99]

Very much disagree. Google clearly saw the potential of this as well, and did a ton of work and created a lot of leading models based on this.

The big difference between Google and OpenAI is that Google "had a ton more to lose" so to speak and went forward much more cautiously. See all the hullaballoo they had to deal with e.g. with their "Ethical AI" group and the Timnit Gebru fiasco, as well as cases like where that dim bulb Google employee claimed that LaMDA was sentient. OpenAI, on the other hand, was "full speed ahead" from the get-go.

As a result, many of the top AI researchers left Google. After all, wouldn't you rather work at a place where you could see your work productized as fast as you could build it, rather than at a place where other sizable teams in your company were actively working in an adversarial role to put up roadblocks and vetoes wherever they could?

[moralestapia]

Very sensible comment, agree with it.

I still think that the big cos. (Google, MS, Oracle, ...) will win the AI race in the medium/long term as they have a huge momentum behind them, so they didn't really "miss" anything.

ChatGPT is much better than Google Search, though!

[KptMarchewa]

OpenAI is basically front for Microsoft now.

[dzign]

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