alt Hacker NewsAccording to openAI's own @deanwball: Even OpenAI isn't buying this distillation talk:
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This guy is predicting AI covid escaping from a Chinese lab. I find that kind of silly
So he thinks open weight models will lead to “AI communism” and “dystopian hell” and in the very next point proposes that the US create a federal agency to discourage the use of open weight Chinese models. The motivated reasoning in this post is unreal.
here's the original X link : https://x.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412#m
Can you or someone please explain several of the claims made in this tweet?
"I am personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good, given potential risks" what risks?
I suspect the reason they are is 75% explained by strategic blindness/lack of AGI-pilledness (the CCP is very Yann Lecun-y in its views of AI). Confused what this means
Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist, and I'm continually surprised to see the so-called "accelerationists" so excited about open-weight models. Confused again.
One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I've never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn't ultimately concede this is where things end. I don't understand this at all.
Can someone in the know please use plain layman's terms to explain what this tweet is about?
> open models are inherently decelerationist
I’m struggling to understand this perspective. Is he using the words accelerationist/decelerationist in a sense other than the obvious one?
EDIT: I searched his twitter history and discovered that his argument is basically “if you drive down costs, then OpenAI will have less money to invest in development, slowing down the overall rate of AI progress.” IMO this take betrays an overwhelmingly stupid degree of exceptionalism, but I guess that’s what I’d expect from someone working at OpenAI.