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Pacing the Frontier: A statement from 1,132 employees of frontier AI companies
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www.pacingthefrontier.comPacing the FrontierA statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companieswww.pacingthefrontier.comPacing the FrontierA statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companiesReplying to @eicker@lemmy.world
»Slow down AI« sounds noble until you ask who actually slows down: Democracies and companies that comply simply hand the advantage to rivals that don’t. History suggests voluntary technological restraint rarely wins against geopolitical competition. The race doesn’t stop: it just changes leaders.
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
This all presupposes that this “arms race” is going somewhere. Far as I can tell, trillions of dollars will be incinerated making a better word-guesser while claiming it will lead to some nebulous “AGI”.
Replying to @baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
How much more effective have the large models become for you over the last three years? Do you think development might come to a halt in China, for example, if US providers were indeed to stop developing or releasing them?
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
I think they’ve hit the point of diminishing returns and want to frame it as “we’d better stop before we all die”. That is, incremental improvement is all they’re getting from throwing exponentially increasing compute at these things.
Replying to @baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
So have they been getting better and better?
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Yes, but less and less every time. Hence, point of diminishing returns. No amount of space data centers will fix that.
Replying to @baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
Interestingly, China doesn’t need this computing power, yet Kimi has now unveiled a competitive model all the same. I wonder how this will pan out?