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by lassenordahl 567 days ago
Is your argument that them sharing research progress and demos doesn't benefit anybody purely because we can't immediately play around with them?

I feel like sharing early closed-source blog-posts is part of the research process. I'm sure someone in this thread has thought of a use case that the Google team missed. Open/closed source arguments here feel premature IMO.
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nightski 567 days ago
It's not part of the research process. Being part of the search process would involve a publication and sharing code/data/results/methods. It's not research unless it can be verified by peers.

This is just a marketing fluff piece that does not benefit anyone and is ego stroking at best.

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lassenordahl 567 days ago
Hm yeah - I think you and I just have differing opinions on the research process. I'd be a bit more vague, and define the publication process as something similar to you.

I still think things like this are important, and at least give folks a bit of time to ideate on what will be possible in a few years. Of course having the model or architecture on hand would be nice, but I'm not holding that against Google here.

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