"democratize"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The word you are looking for is "mass-market" or perhaps "sell to small business".
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The word you are looking for is "mass-market" or perhaps "sell to small business".
More about the etymology here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/democratize
Examples of things that are democratized (accessible to virtually anyone) but not commoditized (not the same as what you can get from other providers):
- Coca cola
- iPhones
- Teslas
- Google search
- HN
If you're going to make money by creating an NLP service for wide adoption, you'd hope to create some competitive moat. Otherwise there's no way for you to earn profits to amortize your R&D.
(I mean, like coke, they could say it, but it wouldn’t make sense.)
Possibly one could claim something is democratizing access to some specific aspect?
I do think it probably best to tend away from using the term unless it is a particularly good fit though. (“Best” as in “what I would prefer”, not as in “most profitable”)
Words don't have to mean what their Ancient Greek component parts mean. Meaning = use.
The 6 billion parameter model was released just last week with the huggingface api hooks. It's just a few percentage points less performant than Gpt-3 DaVinci in most metrics. You can run it on a laptop with 40gb ram, albeit slowly.
All that to say, the horse has left the barn. What openai is doing is just marketing and protecting an investment. They don't have an ethical or moral high ground.