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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by Teever on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:53PM (#35534458)
Yeah, I've started wondering similar things about that too, like how far ahead is the NSA on this stuff? And how does that tie in to the recent policy of denying China semiconductors?

Perhaps history will show that the NSA made algorithmic breakthroughs a few years ago and realized what was coming, so political policy was crafted to stymie Chinese progress in this field, and what we're seeing in the public sphere from companies like openAI is a managed release of the technology into the public, openAI at least managing to independently discover the same breakthroughs that the NSA made a a few years ago.

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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers ... by pixl97 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:17PM (#35545212)
You're seeing the government entity as separate from the corporate entity, but quite often in the US its the other way around. The government entity is a rather hollow shell, and the 'brains' of the operation is contracted out to the corporation. The government entity would almost cease to exist if the corporation under it magically disappeared.
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