The Fire at Google - Is That Really a Good Idea?

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Ami: We thought we would be ruffling feathers at open ai, because we were talking about gpt three as sort of like the main example of this. But you know, the funny thing is that the initial ask from google was retract the paper or take the Google co authors off of it. Ami: i guess it was just, but too directly to the heart of, hey, the stuff that you're betting everything on might not be a good ideam.

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