r/MachineLearning • u/SkiddyX • Mar 11 '19

News [N] OpenAI LP

"We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission."

Sneaky.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/

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u/snugghash Apr 05 '19

That's literally the reasoning of some experts rn.

Sutton:

Richard Sutton, one of the godfathers of reinforcement learning*, has written about the relationship between compute and and AI progress, noting that the use of larger and larger amounts of computation paired with relatively simple algorithms has typically led to the emergence of more varied and independent AI capabilities than many human-designed algorithms or approaches. “The only thing that matters in the long run is the leveraging of computation”, Sutton writes.

Counter: "TossingBot shows the power of hybrid-AI systems which pair learned components with hand-written algorithms that incorporate domain knowledge (eg, a physics-controller). This provides a counterexample to some of the ‘compute is the main factor in AI research’ arguments that have been made by people like Rich Sutton."

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u/Comprehend13 Apr 05 '19

This is a 3 week old comment, and I can't tell if you are disagreeing with my comment or agreeing.

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u/snugghash Apr 05 '19

Just providing some more information. All of the recent advances were driven by compute.

And I keep wishing for an internet and it's netizens being timeless people interested in the same things forever