Original title: personal feud? Microsoft Corp is authorized exclusively by GPT-3, Musk: OpenAI is no longer open.
Since the beginning of this year, a buzzword has emerged in the field of artificial intelligence: GPT-3.
Developed by the artificial intelligence non-profit organization OpenAI at a cost of $12 million, it covers 175 billion parameters, reaching the current best SOTA, and the writing level is comparable to that of human beings. With all kinds of halos, the natural language processing model GPT-3 has become an AI artifact.
In September, OpenAI decided to open GPT-3 commercial API, and the pricing plan was also announced. Just a few days ago, OpenAI and Microsoft Corp jointly announcedMicrosoft Corp is authorized exclusively by GPT-3.
However, the decision drew resentment from industry insiders such as Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI, and Gary Marcus, a well-known artificial intelligence scholar.
"artificial intelligence research will move towards democracy"
Microsoft Corp posted a blog on the official website on September 22, 2020, saying that Microsoft Corp partnered with OpenAI to obtain an exclusive license for the GPT-3 language model.
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Microsoft Corp Executive Vice President and CTO Kevin Scott said on his blog:
Microsoft Corp, who is authorized exclusively by GPT-3, will use technological innovation to develop and deliver advanced artificial intelligence solutions for customers, while making use of the amazing power of GPT-3 to create new solutions. Microsoft Corp is going to democratize cutting-edge artificial intelligence research, thus helping to achieve secure universal artificial intelligence.
Kevin Scott believes that the commercial and creative potential unleashed by the GPT-3 model is so great that we can't even imagine many possible developments. To really stimulate the potential of GPT-3 in a large-scale, responsible and economically fair way, not just a technology company can do it, it needs more manpower investment.
The whole blog post seems to express one sentence-- we see the great value of OpenAI.
Kevin Scott also hinted that AI translation tools will be built in the future, and even GPT-3 will be used to help humans write, but the specific commercial use is not clear.
So, how does OpenAI explain "exclusive license"?
OpenAI made it clear in his blog post on the 22nd that "exclusive license" will not affect users.With continued access to the GPT-3 model through API, future users will still be able to build applications through API.
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However, according to foreign media The Verge, a Microsoft Corp spokesman said the decision gave Microsoft Corp exclusive access to the underlying code of GPT-3, including advanced technology that Microsoft Corp hopes to add to his own products and services.
Looking back at the collaboration between OpenAI and Microsoft Corp, July 2019 was a landmark time point.
At that time, Microsoft Corp announced an investment of 1 billion US dollars in OpenAI. As an exclusive cloud service provider for OpenAI, Microsoft Corp will work with OpenAI for a long time to build new Azure AI supercomputing technology and further develop AI capabilities.
In exchange, OpenAI granted some of its intellectual property rights to Microsoft Corp.
After that, Microsoft Corp commercialized these intellectual property rights and sold them to partners to run the AI model through Azure training in the process of OpenAI developing the next generation of computing hardware.
In less than a year, the cooperation between the two has borne fruit-on May 19, 2020, Microsoft Corp announced a supercomputer specially designed for OpenAI's AI model at the Build 2020 developer Conference.
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Microsoft Corp saidThe performance of this supercomputer ranks among the Top 5 in the world.
The supercomputer, with 285000 CPU cores and 10000 GPU and 400Gbps network connections, is designed to train large-scale artificial intelligence models, making them available to billions of pages of text from published books, teaching manuals, history lessons, human resources guides and other public sources.
From investing, announcing overkill, to exclusive licensing, OpenAI seems to be one step closer to its $1 billion dream of general artificial intelligence.
"OpenAI might as well be renamed ClosedAI."
On the other hand, many Twitter netizens have shown dissatisfaction.
For example, Whole Mars Catalog believes that OpenAI should allow GPT-3 to be widely used and should not be authorized exclusively to Microsoft Corp. With that, Whole Mars Catalog also cue Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI.
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Elon Musk, who is active in Twitter every day, replied, of course, with a hit to the point:
This decision seems to run counter to "openness". In essence, OpenAI has been controlled by Microsoft Corp. The original words are This does seem like the opposite of open. OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft.)
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As another netizen Disrupt or Distort said:
OpenAI can just change its name to ClosedAI.
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Is there any reason why Elon Musk, as a co-founder, speaks so ruthlessly to OpenAI?
The view of foreign media Business Insider is that Elon Musk may be targeting Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp.
Indeed, the two tech bigwigs, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, have always been hostile to each other. On June 30, Elon Musk also refuted the rumor that Bill Gates and I were lovers and could take a break.
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The most recent tit-for-tat between the two was when Bill Gates said in a blog post at the end of August that pick-up trucks (such as Tesla, Inc. Semi) and electric jets would probably never appear. Of course, Elon Musk was not happy to hear this, meaning "he doesn't understand".
That said, it's not the first time Elon Musk has publicly criticized OpenAI.
As early as 2015, Elon Musk co-founder of LinkedIn, president of Y Combinator and founder of Pay Pal jointly announced the creation of Open AI, with the goal of creating an open AI that belongs to all mankind.
In February 2018, OpenAI officials announced that Elon Musk had resigned from the board to avoid conflicts of interest caused by Intezra. However, Elon Musk will continue to act as an OpenAI consultant and provide financial support.
At that time, it was speculated that the possible reason was that Elon Musk would letOpenAI scientists helped give advice to Tesla, Inc., and OpenAI became Tesla, Inc. 's "foreign aid".
And the fundamental reason lies in the inherent contradiction between the two--If OpenAI is the ideal, then Tesla, Inc. is the reality, and the ideal and the reality can not coexist.
In February 2020, Elon Musk tweeted that he had "low confidence" in OpenAI's security measures in terms of artificial intelligence, and that he had "no control" and "limited insight" in OpenAI recently.
In addition to Elon Musk,Robust.AI founder and CEO, artificial intelligence mogul Gary Marcus also incarnated after learning that Microsoft Corp received exclusive authorization of the news: the original unique power is called democracy.
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The GPT-3 who was praised to the sky.
It is worth mentioning that Gary Marcus has always been prejudiced against OpenAI's GPT-3.
Gary Marcus's top tweet on Twitter is GPT-3:
The previous two generations of language models of GPT-3 were "shit artists". GPT-3 is better, but essentially a "shit artist".
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But one of the peculiarities of GPT-3 is that it is exalted to heaven while being relegated to shit.
In terms of performance, the larger the model, the better the performance of GPT-3 in terms of trainable totals, levels and learning ratio.
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Answer questions, write articles, translate, generate code, do mathematical reasoning, data analysis, drawing charts, making resumes, playing games can do anything, and the results are very good. GPT-3 has become the hottest topic in the field of AI, and netizens exclaim that GPT-3 has become refined.
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However, even if you can play with more than 50 tasks, GPT-3 still fails to pass some basic common sense questions and mathematical logic.
Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI, also believes that GPT-3 is overhyped:
There is too much hype about GPT-3. It still has serious flaws and sometimes stupidity.
Not only that, GPT-3 has sparked a heated debate about the morality of powerful artificial intelligence programs that can be used for evil purposes.
At first, OpenAI refused to publish GPT-3 's research for fear of being abused.
Source of reference:
HtTps://www.businessinsider.coZA / elon-musk-criticizes-microsoft-exclusively-licensing-gpt-3-2020-9
Https://openai.com/blog/openai-licenses-gpt-3-technology-to-microsoft/
Https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model/
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