As sad as Carmack working for Facebook.
One would expect that bright people would know better, specially after the Manhattan project.
One would expect that bright people would know better, specially after the Manhattan project.
They sometimes open their older models: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper
Last time I checked Carmack never gave his games away for free.
OpenAI put it in the name and backtracked almost immediately.
Again this has very little real connection to a commercial company in its prime releasing OSS and sacrificing massive income.
All you've shown me is a programmer who got wealthy releasing the closed source games via big name publishers, strategically making their own company, then later released the source code for a well-past-its-commerical-prime game at minimal personal risk, in an industry at the time where old games die. Even remastering old IP games wasn't a thing yet.
Meanwhile releasing his engine brought him and his team much personal reputation, showing his amazing programming techniques and talent which helped the industry... even though no one cared to use his old out-of-date open source engine (aka little commercial risk)... which yes was novel at the time and respectable.
What does this have to do with OpenAI exactly? Or top end talent spending their prime at a commercial software company?
And I despise the heavily policed OpenAI approach to models so I have no skin in the game to defend them.
Because Carmack kept developing new engines that were better. He also made it easy for people to build maps and add onto the game.
You can earn both money and followers by holding back key pieces but still sharing with the community.
Check out the book Masters of Doom.
Sure, some people in the industry knew him, but working for Tesla and selling their dreams of FSD really put him on the map.
I feel the same with AI. Most people struggle to make ends meet. Meanwhile our brightest minds are developing AI and will hand it over to people who don't care about the rest of us. Models will be closed, data will be closed. Why? You get my point?
More to the point, openAI makes chatbots that use matrix multiplication to provide believable sentences, and a few similar things. This isn't and never will be nuclear power. Nobody is working or, or close to, any sentient or dangerous AI (dangerous in a way that a regular computer program couldn't be). The applications in contemplation here are better searching, low end copywriting, some kind of smart assistant.
(On a technical level, there's very cool stuff going on, but there is not societal risk, other than the fallout from s big hype bubble)
Looking forward to this aging like milk. Virtually everyone in the industry believes AGI will happen, and virtually everyone agrees that it is going to permanently change humanity like we've never seen before.