Comment by Danox
2 hours ago
Yes, and yes, again the only way to compete is to build the best not hide in a corner and once again the rest of the world will go on in AI without the United States if we flub it. Circling the wagons, isn’t the long range answer.
This is such an obvious conclusion. To take it a bit further...
Scale matters for these things. If we divide the available chips among 5 competing companies we end up with models that are trained on 1/5 of the resources that they otherwise could've been.
Let the companies take turns training on shared hardware, force them to publish results in the open, and then reward them based on how well the resulting model performs at democratically chosen benchmarks. Meritocracy not monopoly.
Make it about how well you wield the silicon, not how much silicon you wield, and make it a positive-sum game. If the people's data is going in, then the people should benefit from what comes out whether or not they have a subscription.
If capitalism as we know it can't complete, so much the worse for capitalism as we know it.