From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Shane Mulligan <mullikine@gmail.com>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-tangents@gnu.org,
bugs@gnu.support
Subject: Re: Help building Pen.el (GPT for emacs)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 21:06:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1m7SbY-0004hw-1D@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT87Jqbyqgm=uPb-rLLYE9BmWHfBFP4s9+cA8UcPJ-6nb3cLQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Shane Mulligan on Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:51:19 +1200)
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> GPT is potentially the best thing to happen to emacs in a very long time.
If GPT-3 were released as a free program, we might want to use it.
Perhaps it would be very useful.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but I think GPT-3 is an unreleased
program which people can use only via SaaSS. SaaSS stands for Service
as a Software Substitute. It means that a "service" accepts your
data, does a specific computing job, and sends you back the results.
Using such a service is morally mostly equivalent to running a nonfree
program -- so we cannot suggest that anyone DO that.
See https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html for
more explanation of this issue.
> The way this will work is you will download
> the free GPT model, such as GPT-j, GPT-neo or
> GPT-neox and then you will have an offline and
> private alternative to many things previously
> you would go online for.
Are you saying there is a free replacement for GPT-3 and we can
run these free models with it on our own computers?
That could be good news, because we could actually use it.
> It will bring back power from the corporations and save it to your
> computer,
That sounds exciting but it is not concrete enough to think about.
open source and transparent,
What follows is a side issue, but it's an important side issue.
"Open source" is the slogan of a campaign we don't advocate.
It is partly similar to the free software movement but discards
the moral foundation: the idea of freedom.
We don't use the slogan "open source" because we want to advocate
freedom, not forget it.
See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
source. See also https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler for
Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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2021-07-19 17:00 ` Help building Pen.el (GPT for emacs) Jean Louis
2021-07-23 6:51 ` Shane Mulligan
2021-07-23 10:12 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-23 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-23 11:32 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-23 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-23 12:47 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-23 13:39 ` Shane Mulligan
2021-07-23 14:39 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-26 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-26 0:28 ` Shane Mulligan
2021-07-30 3:20 ` Shane Mulligan
2021-07-30 6:55 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-23 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-07-24 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-07-24 16:16 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-24 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 18:01 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-25 1:09 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-24 1:14 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-24 2:10 ` Shane Mulligan
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2021-07-24 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 14:16 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-07-24 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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