If I donated millions to them, I’d be furious.
What gives me even less sympathy for Altman is that he took OpenAI, whose mission was open AI, and turned it not only closed but then immediately started a world tour trying to weaponize fear-mongering to convince governments to effectively outlaw actually open AI.
The strangest thing to me is that the shadiness seems completely unnecessary, and really requires a very critical eye for anything associated with OpenAI. Google seems like the good guy in AI lol.0
I was genuinely concerned about their behaviour towards Timnit Gebru, though.
Granted, stupid fun-sy public-facing image generation project.
But I'm more worried about the lack of transparency around the black box, and the internal adversarial testing that's being applied to it.
Google has an absolute right to build a model however they want -- but they should be able to proactively document how it functions, what it should and should not be used for, and any guardrails they put around it.
Is there anywhere that says "Given a prompt, Bard will attempt to deliver a racially and sexually diverse result set, and that will take precedence over historical facts"?
By all means, I support them building that model! But that's a pretty big 'if' that should be clearly documented.
I don’t think anyone is arguing google doesn’t have the right. The argument is that google is incompetent and stupid for creating and releasing such a poor model.