Except that many of the people involved do think of it like a football game, and thus it actually is like one. Of course the researchers and engineers at both OpenAI and Google DeepMind have a sense of rivalry and strive to one up another. They definitely feel like they are in a competition.
> They definitely feel like they are in a competition.
Citation needed?
Although I did not work in AI, I did work at Google X robotics on a robot they often use for AI research.
Maybe some people felt like it was a competition, but I don’t have much reason to believe that feeling is common. AI researchers are literally in collaboration with other people in the field, publishing papers and reading the work of others to learn and build upon it.
> AI researchers are literally in collaboration with other people in the field, publishing papers and reading the work of others to learn and build upon it.
When OpenAI suddenly stopped publishing their stuff I bet that many researchers now started feeling like it started to be a competition.
OpenAI is no longer cooperating, they are just competing. They still haven't said anything about how gpt-4 works.
