Comment by lrvick
3 days ago
How is that working out for the mp3 algorithm or bluray decryption?
The OSS community just laughs at algo patents. There was never any ability to enforce them at the pre-AI scale. Post-AI the corpos have no chance. They lost.
Notice the word new, novel and proprietary. Would you like to ask your AI pipeline to duplicate ours? Unless someone knows what we do to parameterize, create and optimize new, proprietary and novel algorithm sets, it remains as part of any new scientific or engineering moat associated to an AI pipeline. This also include deep knowledge domain expertise and human decision trees applied along the way.
So if I am understanding you correctly, the final moat will be private AI optimizations hidden behind closed doors so the public has nothing to reverse engineer.
That moat will hold so long as no one cares about what you built enough to ask a model of similar power to yours "get me similar results to X" until they learn their own path to do so. Maybe one even more efficient than yours.
It will just take one of those people to Open Source something good enough and game over.
Even proprietary algorithms decay. Better proprietary AI algos are alive, grow and evolve.