- Published on September 14, 2022
- In AI Features
Is Centralised AI Unethical?
The concentration of AI-related resources in the hands of only a few is often seen as unethical
- By Pritam Bordoloi
For AI to reach its potential and for society to benefit from it, AI needs to be decentralised, i.e., different stakeholders in the AI community should have equal access to all resources like datasets, compute power and the source codes for different AI models. But that is not the case today.
Today, most of the breakthroughs in the field of AI come from big organisations. AI text-to-image generators such as DALL-E2 and Imagen to Large Language Models (LLM) such as GPT-3, have all come from large organisations.
However, none of these AI models are open-sourced. Today, AI still remains fairly centralised. This means the inner functioning of such models is known by only a handful of people.
While large organisations such as Meta, Google and Microsoft are slowly adhering t
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Pritam Bordoloi
I have a keen interest in creative writing and artificial intelligence. As a journalist, I deep dive into the world of technology and analyse how it’s restructuring business models and reshaping society.
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