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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by lightsighter on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:46PM (#36144112)
To be fair, it's never been easier to get access to thousands of GPUs in the cloud. It might be expensive, but that is an entirely different kind of barrier. Just a decade ago, it used to be that the only way to get access to thousands of GPUs was to get access to a supercomputer at a national lab. Now anybody with enough money can rent thousands of GPUs (with good interconnects too!) in the cloud. There's certainly a limitation on it from a money perspective, but access to the computational resources themselves is not a problem.
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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by pixl97 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:38PM (#36144682)
Governments: "Whoever buys over X GPU hours must register with a state identification"

Amazon: "Can do"

Government: "Any projects that pool GPU resources will also be against the law and you must prevent it"

Amazon: "Ouch"

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by samstave on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:32PM (#36155354)
Also Amazon: "Hey bitch, we built and run your .gov cloud infra in your NSA/CIA staffed Mormon Data Centers"

Look at me ; Who is the surveillance now

(Yes the intels use mormons a lot...)

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by samstave on Thursday June 01, 2023 @09:57PM (#36159941)
(Why do you think we have the largest private hedge fund [aside from apple, and those other guys])
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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by tiedieconderoga on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:32PM (#36144621)
"The Cloud" == "Somebody else's computers"

If your government passes a law saying that GPUs can only be purchased or rented with a license, as OP was suggesting, all of that capacity disappears with the snap of a finger.

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by crumpled on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:08AM (#36147761)
The GPU capacity of another country will be happy to fill the gap and export your money.
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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by pixl97 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @09:04AM (#36150505)
"Dear government, yes, I was spending my money accessing an illegal minution, please don't throw me too far under the jail"

I'd like you to stop and think about this for a minute... which country is going to be exporting powerful GPUs? If the US blocked GPU resources, do you think China will suddenly start allowing everyone to have them? No, they'd jump right on board with their own limitations so they didn't have to worry about internal issues.

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by crumpled on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:55PM (#36156504)
Yes I've thought about it.

I'm talking about cloud services. Have you ever heard of anyone engaging in the use of illegal cloud services? I have.

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