Its not all that surprising that the country with 20% of the population of earth has some smart people in it. What is, I think, surprising and fascinating is how China has been focusing on doing more with less - their underdog position w.r.t. hardware has pushed a huge focus on model efficiency and distillation, to the benefit of us all.
I think its a distinct possibility that while the first AGI to say 'hello world' might do it in english, the first open source AGI running on consumer hardware will probably say it in mandarin.
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Its not all that surprising that the country with 20% of the population of earth has some smart people in it. What is, I think, surprising and fascinating is how China has been focusing on doing more with less - their underdog position w.r.t. hardware has pushed a huge focus on model efficiency and distillation, to the benefit of us all.
I think its a distinct possibility that while the first AGI to say 'hello world' might do it in english, the first open source AGI running on consumer hardware will probably say it in mandarin.