This is big tech or whoever using big money to lock up what they think is the dawn of 'true AI'.
Buying people off is pretty easy! I'm sure I'd feel the same way and take the money.
But just like you can't write an iPhone app without Apple's consent, soon we won't be able to do any serious AI work without the consent of, and payment to, MS or Google or whoever.
I wonder what the talented people at OpenAI or Mistral tell themselves. That they're doing something good for society or technology? Probably, but already AI is being concentrated into a few hands. Nvidia has a virtual monopoly on hardware and training huge models is out of reach, open research got us here but that's looking increasingly shaky.
Personally I think LLMs are a red herring, so there is still a chance to change the outcome, but we should take a lesson from what's transpired with OpenAI and Mistral and only support actual open development.
>I wonder what the talented people at OpenAI or Mistral tell themselves.
At Mistral it's probably no small part "It shouldn't just be a few big american companies who control all of this" (and Mensch has spoken along these lines)
I think in the worst case at least you'll have an EU big company in the cartel, but given what the EU has done for regular people against big tech I think that's a good thing
Buying people off is pretty easy! I'm sure I'd feel the same way and take the money.
But just like you can't write an iPhone app without Apple's consent, soon we won't be able to do any serious AI work without the consent of, and payment to, MS or Google or whoever.
I wonder what the talented people at OpenAI or Mistral tell themselves. That they're doing something good for society or technology? Probably, but already AI is being concentrated into a few hands. Nvidia has a virtual monopoly on hardware and training huge models is out of reach, open research got us here but that's looking increasingly shaky.
Personally I think LLMs are a red herring, so there is still a chance to change the outcome, but we should take a lesson from what's transpired with OpenAI and Mistral and only support actual open development.