The really scary thing is that this could be used as an excuse to hide production ML models and even the tech used to generate them. Sounds like we can expect the state-of-the-art AI techniques to be jealously guarded eventually. I guess optimism on the ground is enough to have prevented that so far, but once the scales tip away from sharing and towards exploitation.. well, we know it's largely a one-way process on the 1 decade time scale. Is this the chilling effect that will bring us into the next AI winter?
Hm is that really true? I thought that there was quite a lot of sharing from industry leaders at the research paper and dataset level, and that these could be used imitate production systems given some hacking. Kinda seemed like the majors were enjoying the benefits of the scrutiny afforded to public scientific research, while keeping their monopoly confined to the silicon/speed/throughput axis. Hence all the free AI software toolkits and also high priced specialty hot-off-the-wafer chips you'll never get.
