Someone should start a nonprofit company focused on developing Open AI. I bet we could even get some sensible billionaires to help the effort.

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jaredsohn 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe one of those trillionaires could help for a bit before leaving to make his own AI model, too.

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codedokode 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And we are definitely not going to put our users on a watch list DB and send their data to the government?

And how do we prevent Chinese companies from training on our open AI models and offering their models for free?

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jrockway 9 hours ago | parent [-]

How does Red Hat prevent Chinese companies from producing a Linux distribution for free? They don't. And yet they still exist.

	▲	rvnx 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They can't prevent the innovation, competition and engineering, but their lobbying makes sure that the Chinese competition doesn't enter the market, and if it does, with severe obstacles on the way. https://www.ibm.com/policy/contributions-and-expenditures Their biggest customer is the US federal government, taken in aggregate across agencies, IBM is one of the largest federal IT contractors, and deep public-sector and financial-services contracts in the US make it IBM's single largest national market. No individual commercial company comes close to the government's aggregate spend. Now, equivalent product, another company, they want to sell to the government twice cheaper, can they ? nope, it will be IBM winning. Furthermore, according to the lobbyists, China = evil but they forget that a lot of software contains Chinese code.

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biraj-rocks 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i’d really love to be wrong, i don't think that the economics of it would let it happen.

the potential of wealth creation with AI is so high, and also the fact that research, pre-training and inference is so expensive that, that any open-AI would eventually become OpenAI.

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bckr 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We could all chip in

	▲	janalsncm 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Based on recent SEC filings, you’ll soon be able to.

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jauntywundrkind 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ai2) is doing really good open source work in the west. It's awful that the west has so few other pokers in the fire here for nonprofit AI. https://allenai.org/

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