Considering the insanity of the AI arms race going on now, and the incredible sums of money be thrown at any slight advantage, is there any reason to believe that any meaningful AI breakthrough would be openly published for anyone to leverage?
These folks are MIT, so citations are valuable to them. Citations convert into prestige, academic career progression, or a favorable exit from academia into industry.
Also, I don't see why you couldn't patent this if you wanted to monetize it.
Yes there is. Lots of researchers are more interested in making a contribution to societal flourishing than in making incredible sums of money. That’s why there’s still lots of top AI researchers in academia.
I do sometimes wonder -- if the transformers paper wasn't published, what would the industry be like? Would the same ideas have been put together in almost the same way weeks or months later somewhere else?
The reality is that the money being thrown = the time of humans. I guess compute as well, but in terms of people doing innovation - openly published things are the same thing, minus the money.
Superficially it sounds like this could create a bit more of a move toward doing compaction on some continuous basis, or compacting in batches once you hit the context limit, rather than starting fresh with a summary and system prompt..
Feels like high fidelity, fast compaction could be a path to “solving” long context.
Also, I don't see why you couldn't patent this if you wanted to monetize it.
We all just saw the prior art published for the public. That will preclude patenting this work. Further reduction to practice is required.
(I am not a lawyer).
The reality is that the money being thrown = the time of humans. I guess compute as well, but in terms of people doing innovation - openly published things are the same thing, minus the money.
I don’t think it will last among researchers who think beyond production LLMs
Feels like high fidelity, fast compaction could be a path to “solving” long context.