It's an interesting time to be alive, that's for sure. 5 years ago there simply wasn't sufficient compute of this kind of AI takeover. But we seem to have hit some kind of inflection point where suddenly a huge number of capital flows have now concentrated their power on bringing GPU/NPU compute online as fast as humanly possible.
The physical world is a world of limitations. Reconfiguring it requires effort. Digital worlds are totally reconfigurable, limited only by their bandwidth. We are building intelligence weaponary that can be deployed against us.
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In the early days of nuclear R&D there were criticality accidents. A lack of regulation plus an atomic race with other countries, led to experimentation, mistakes, and deaths.
We're in a similar situation, except instead of the research being confined to a small number of government labs that have managed to amass sufficient quantities of uranium or plutonium, we have a situation where any company that wants to train AI simply has to assemble enough GPUs. Worse, running said model can be done by anyone with a Mac Studio.
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