AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3

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AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3

On September 22nd, Microsoft announced that “Microsoft is teaming up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3”.

This, and the prior decision by OpenAI to not open source the GPT-3 code or data and instead only provide access to it through an API, represent troubling developments for the notion of democratizing AI due to a host of concerns I’ll address in this piece.