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No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison

5 May 2023 15 published claims 4 attributable people

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01 / recommendation

Yeah. So if I were a founder today, I wouldn't worry as much about the model, maybe, but I would say, okay, what can I build into my product and like, or what can I do at the engineering level that maybe it's not model optimization because everybody's working on it, but like you said, it's like, why haven't people thought of this before?

“Yeah. So if I were a founder today, I wouldn't worry as much about the model, maybe, but I would say, okay, what can I build into my product and like, or what can I do at the engineering level that maybe it's not model optimization because everybody's working on it, but like you said, it's like, why haven't people thought of this before?”
Speaker
Alessio Fanelli
Publisher
Latent Space

02 / evaluation

Is that pipeline and JavaScript have a million packages. So no matter how good your new language is, if it can't tap into those existing package libraries, it's, it's not gonna be useful for, which is why Moji is so clever, because they did build on top of Pips.

“Is that pipeline and JavaScript have a million packages. So no matter how good your new language is, if it can't tap into those existing package libraries, it's, it's not gonna be useful for, which is why Moji is so clever, because they did build on top of Pips.”
Speaker
Simon Willison
Publisher
Latent Space

07 / evaluation

Like that's one of the things where I feel like, yeah, vicuna running on my, on my laptop is probably powerful enough to drive a sort of personal research assistant, which can look things up for me and it can summarize things for my notes and it can do all of that and I don't care. But it doesn't know about the Ukraine war because the Ukraine war training cutoff, that doesn't matter.

“Like that's one of the things where I feel like, yeah, vicuna running on my, on my laptop is probably powerful enough to drive a sort of personal research assistant, which can look things up for me and it can summarize things for my notes and it can do all of that and I don't care. But it doesn't know about the Ukraine war because the Ukraine war training cutoff, that doesn't matter.”
Speaker
Simon Willison
Publisher
Latent Space

08 / evaluation

Is, is, is a better source of information for than Google now. And so, yeah, I'm not, it doesn't surprise me that Google would see this as an existential threat because whether or not they can be Bard, it's actually, it's not great, but it, it exists, but it hasn't it yet either.

“Is, is, is a better source of information for than Google now. And so, yeah, I'm not, it doesn't surprise me that Google would see this as an existential threat because whether or not they can be Bard, it's actually, it's not great, but it, it exists, but it hasn't it yet either.”
Speaker
Simon Willison
Publisher
Latent Space

09 / preference

Like one I'm very interesting and let's, let's talk about that a little bit more because this concept of stackable improvements to models I think is extremely interesting.

“Like one I'm very interesting and let's, let's talk about that a little bit more because this concept of stackable improvements to models I think is extremely interesting.”
Speaker
Shawn Wang
Publisher
Latent Space

11 / evaluation

There's good reasons to believe it is leaked from Google, and to be honest, if it's not, it doesn't actually matter because the quality of the analysis, I think stands alone.

“There's good reasons to believe it is leaked from Google, and to be honest, if it's not, it doesn't actually matter because the quality of the analysis, I think stands alone.”
Speaker
Simon Willison
Publisher
Latent Space

12 / prediction

I think for, for large language models, it, it, it will be over, over time kind of a race to the bottom just because the switching costs are, are, are so low compared with traditional cloud and sas.

“I think for, for large language models, it, it, it will be over, over time kind of a race to the bottom just because the switching costs are, are, are so low compared with traditional cloud and sas.”
Speaker
Travis Fischer
Publisher
Latent Space

14 / evaluation

The question is, if you wanna compete against these companies, maybe the model is not what you're gonna do it with because the open source kind of commoditizes it.

“The question is, if you wanna compete against these companies, maybe the model is not what you're gonna do it with because the open source kind of commoditizes it.”
Speaker
Alessio Fanelli
Publisher
Latent Space
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