[mullikine]

It bothers me that foundation models are not decentralised. While it's too dangerous to distribute these models generally to the public (because that would increase the amount of fiction in the world), the technology continues to improve regardless, albeit in secret. Seems inevitable that what is being built is an AI god - an intelligence that demands trust and faith in it since we're merely spectating the rise of AGI rather than being allowed to augment ourselves with it. But I suppose that a warning is better than no warning, so thanks G.

[andreyk]

Very true, but here's a counterpoint - EletheurAI and at least one other effort (Big Science I think, or something similar) are making good headway from the open source side.

Also, it's not quite I'm secret - the big labs continue to publish papers on the major advancements (at least, as far as we know), which in itself enables open source.

Lastly, academia is lagging but is making efforts to get in on making such models - see Stanford's CRFM, which I believe released some models recently.

PS I rather disagree with 'AI god' as something that is likely to come out of these efforts anytime soon personally, though that's a longer discussion.