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Comment · 2 years ago
This AI model is gonna be annoying as hell.
Comment · 2 years ago
nothing is safe from the google graveyard!
Comment · 2 years ago
yea fair point, the person who posted the tweet says the indexing stopped, I'm just highlighting there's probably another reason why that's case.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not a search expert but is the index halted, or is there an issue with serving the results? so there are results in the database but for some reason the query that it sent times out or something and nothing comes back.
Comment · 2 years ago
Loss aversion is way stronger than potential but not guaranteed gain.
Comment · 2 years ago
Got me with that one.
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting. Will definitely check out that thread.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is this just inevitable now?

I also can't believe that these media companies haven't learned the lesson they shouldn't have learned by looking what happened with Google and saying maybe we shouldn't give that away, at any cost. Like what's their bargaining position after the training has been done?

Comment · 2 years ago
No one said it's been done. There has been healthy debate about the fact that there hasn't been any (major) new social media networks since Snap (and Instagram before it). The cloud computing paradigm is now mostly dominated by 2 players (with GCP a distant third). here are 2 major desktop OSes, 2 major mobile OSes. etc.

This isn't proof that it won't happen again, it just says that the rate at which new innovations in software (and a new workout app doesn't count) has slowed down. LLMs being the exception but it's not like you and I can start an AI company in our garage.

Comment · 2 years ago
Love that comparison!

I'm so glad that some companies/people are building and releasing models to the public. This amazing development being exclusive to OpenAI would've been a terrible situation for the world.

Comment · 2 years ago
Or Minecraft :D
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting. I am as far from the medical field as could be. Will need to investigate that for sure.
Comment · 2 years ago
Agree with your point about tech, and I don't know a lot about academia to disagree.

One of my issues as someone who works in tech is that it so much capital has poured in and so much attention was on the field that there are relatively few innovations where one can create value. OpenAI being an exception that also proves the rule. A true innovation that literally needs billions of $ to have a chance of happening. Microsoft or Amazon didn't need that kind of money to build successful companies on the back of new business models.

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