Title really - right now the leader of OpenAI is blurry, which isn’t good for the industry to follow.
We need a strong leader to focus our efforts, but if this isn’t the case - perhaps it’ll get chaotic?
Title really - right now the leader of OpenAI is blurry, which isn’t good for the industry to follow.
We need a strong leader to focus our efforts, but if this isn’t the case - perhaps it’ll get chaotic?
the main use for a leading orgenization in agi is that they will hopefully do it safely. but thats not really what we have been seeing recently from openai or meta.
what we really really want to avoid is the situation where an AI system is able to be profitable enough by itself to pay for its own compute and starts copying itself like crazy.
that sort of system wont have a centralized plug we can pull and copies would mutate and evolve and that can potentially go horribly horribly wrong.
but other than that nightmare scenario having a split in the industry is actually good and the best work came from a time like that. good research does not come from big organizations it comes from small (relatively) independent teams.
the current “leaders” of ai pushing for their specific narrative have made us miss a few things for instance the idea that transformers are the be all end all has made us overestimate VIT for years. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11347)