Comment by anonymousDan
5 months ago
It's well written but completely unjustified in its criticism of UK universities or their role given the resources required to train SOTA models. Are any US universities training SOTA models? No. Your point about the need for private venture capital is exactly correct. I think some kind of new funding stream needs to be identified for doing this. The US is forcing China to sell TikTok's US arm for national security reasons. We could try to do something similar in return for granting US Big Tech companies access to Europe - I guess the digital tax is a step in this direction. But it seems challenging to enforce that given the current power dynamics.