Has OpenAI Surpassed DeepMind?
The Commercial Aspect
It is the usefulness of GPT-3 which can be commercialised, and OpenAI has launched APIs for a commercial subscription. OpenAI stands the chance of churning profit with their APIs. Open AI also benefits from Microsoft’s collaboration in training the language model using its supercomputer. Microsoft can further help the company in finding business clients, given its incredibly rich enterprise presence.
DeepMind exists under Google’s umbrella, hence a little more skewed towards Google. Ever since Alphabet acquired DeepMind, it has been reporting losses, but Google back up is going to keep it fine. Also, it does not have to prioritise on building a product that could be commercialised readily. Instead, DeepMind has been focusing on proof-of-concept where its agents have beaten humans at very complex games using reinforcement learning techniques, including AlphaGo.
The AI Value Of Both Systems
GPT-3 can be used by businesses in actually finishing human tasks, making it the most coherent language model.
Comparatively DeepMind’s AI doesn’t have many practical applications yet in day to day business operations, but only in niche areas.
In terms of research, both companies deal with Deep RL and have a similar approach to advancing artificial intelligence.
DeepMind’s staff of more than 1,000, which includes hundreds of well-paid PhD graduates and continues to publish academic papers but only a tiny amount of the work gets covered by the mainstream media.
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