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turnip_burrito t1_j4pe9vm wrote

Reply to comment by AsheyDS in Perhaps ChatGPT is a step back? by PaperCruncher

Why don't we have more publically funded research groups like the private OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta research making cutting edge progress? Seems naïvely like a easy to solve this problem, to me.

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AsheyDS t1_j4qgigy wrote

I wish... but public funding from where? AI enthusiasts? The general public at large who barely even knows what chatGPT is, let alone any other progress in the field? I've considered crowd-funding for my own work, but I would not get the amounts I need. Even just looking at this sub, there are too many differing opinions that are all over the map, so while I may get a few small donations here and there, it's just not going to amount to anything helpful. It would be nice if there were more alternatives than pairing up with big investors though.

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gelukuMLG t1_j4s074b wrote

EleutherAi is a company that released a lot of open source models, which are the neo models and pythia ones and some are quite big 20-60B parameters. The models are downloadable from huggingface.

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turnip_burrito t1_j4rwf9n wrote

Taxes, I mean.

The US for example has national labs paying scientists to do research, so it's not unheard of.

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AsheyDS t1_j4rysoq wrote

In the US, there's already this.. https://seedfund.nsf.gov/

Not the easiest thing to get into though, and still capitalist-minded. And actually it's easier to start and maintain a for-profit company for research than it is a non-profit organization, so if you're going to have a for-profit company anyway then you might as well seek a variety of funding sources, which do include strings attached leading to monetization. It's just how the system is unfortunately...

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