[ren_engineer]

at least they admit the competitive landscape is a factor rather than going 100% with "it's for safety reasons". I'm sure somebody will release an equivalent soon, the way open source has completely surpassed OpenAI when they try to keep things closed like DALLE vs Stable Diffusion shows that OpenAI really isn't that special, they just have a sweetheart deal with Microsoft

[dgs_sgd]

I wouldn't be surprised if this tech goes through some kind of export control regulation similar to what cryptography went through in the 90s. Remember the T-Shirt with the RSA source code that was classified as a munition?

[ren_engineer]

seems like controlling access to GPUs would be the more likely/easier solution for governments. Not many facilities that can produce them and easy to track the huge amounts needed for this scale of computing

Almost like trying to stop nuclear proliferation

[generalizations]

After the Llama and ggml projects that came to light in the last few weeks, it's more likely they'd have to control access to CPUs as well. Good luck with that.

[kurisufag]

>good luck with that

I don't think they need it.[0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...

[numpad0]

If I were “they” I’d try to control systems with >128GB RAM capacity and clustering aids e.g. 40GE and PCIe bridging cards. That should be semi doable.

[Sebb767]

Except that the main political competitor (from the US perspective) is the country producing most of them, so this might backfire quite quickly.

[Tossrock]

Wrong unless you consider China and Taiwan the same country, which is a pretty hot take anywhere except China.

[astrea]

I mean, most AI technologies are already considered ITAR for the sole sake of maintaining a competitive advantage. At least, that's what my last two employers have told me and I hope I didn't go through all of that training for nothing.

[0xDEF]

Unlike the anti-cryptography fearmongering of the 90s the concerns about AI is coming from the experts themselves.

[random_cynic]

What has happened to this site? Full of bs takes like this.