As the race for dominating artificial intelligence applications intensifies, tech leaders in AI, Google and OpenAI, have both decided to limit the public release of their AI research. By preserving the information, Google and OpenAI are likely attempting to protect their proprietary research and secure the lead in the AI competition.
Google is the leader in the artificial intelligence sector and has published hundreds of studies since 2019 through its Google Research program. However, the company could not keep up with the public interest in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an AI-informed chatbot which achieved significant success when an improved version of the generative AI bot was released earlier this year. To counteract this, Google decided to only publish research papers after it has had time to incorporate the information into its products and shorten the launch processes with the aid of new evaluation metrics.
In the same vein, OpenAI has also been putting out AI-related research papers since 2016. Though the company has shared information with research institutions for safety measures, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever argued that open-sourcing AI in general is “a bad idea” since AI is expected to become extremely great soon –and this could lead to artificial general intelligence with the same intelligence level as people.
Overall, the decisions to restrict public AI research releases as undertaken by Google and OpenAI are seen as a strategic move to help gain dominance in the AI arena despite competition from smaller players.
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