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dayaz36 t1_j67k257 wrote

It’s never been about safety. These companies just want to control everything. Safety is the excuse. Case in point…

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Talkat t1_j681bli wrote

So a couple questions then.

  1. If it is about control, why release these papers? Why give the industry/world updates on your progress?

  2. If they wanted to control the AI and the products it creates, it should create an AI spinoff to launch products. (eg; Make a AI music company that releases hits). But there has been no word of this either.

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jloverich t1_j681uu6 wrote

The researchers aren't interested in working in places they can't publish. There are other places that probably aren't publishing exactly what they are doing, midjourney and womba I think are examples.

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HenryHorse_ t1_j682w84 wrote

>MusicLM

in terms of MusicLM and google.

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  1. Maybe for community feedback and advancements/improvements
  2. There could be a minimum baseline of quality before they are useful, when that happens they are integrated into existing products. Youtube for example.. MusicML isnt currently good enough yet but would be a great product for content producers.
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fingin t1_j68hdlp wrote

Not that I necessarily agree with OP but:

  1. Papers are great promotion. Think of all the buzz that has now been created for Google MusicLM by only releasing their paper. Also, now that the paper is out, problems or limitations can be addressed by other researchers that will ultimately help Google. Really, the information/theory behind the model is not that important compared to an actual product or tool served.
  2. Agreed!
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Trumaex t1_j6a8kap wrote

Or just doing those press releases as marketing stunts. That's what OpenAI did with GPT2, and it worked for them very well.

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