Regulation in the way OpenAI appears to campaign for in this response is, in my eyes, going to have a very similar trajectory to the consistent and misguided attempts at enforcing backdoors in or a complete ban of modern encryption. Attempts will be made, by agencies and companies lobbying for legislation, alleged solutions will inevitably fail, and some misguided politician is always going to be more than happy to campaign on this topic.

Large Language Models, similar to modern cryptography back in the 90s, are already running locally and anyone intending to regulate them in any way is going to find it difficult to add restrictions to something of that nature.

Cutting edge models are quite expensive to train, so it'd be quite possible to restrict them (unfortunately).

You are absolutely right there at the moment, but the question is whether this will always remain the case. I am honestly doubtful, I am certain this will be more a question of when than if, seeing as both Nvidia and Apple continue making consumer hardware that does well in inferencing.

Add to that the fact that institutions (research institutes[0][1] or universities) are like to continue undertaking the task of training larger in size models, making the fruits of their labor freely accessible.

[0] https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b-instruct [1] https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-...

Yeah, we will find ways of training these things faster, and we will have faster hardware. We will have better, more parameter efficient models. This will inevitably be something we can do locally. You can already trade time for money. Like, right now you can buy hardware for less than what a house costs, train using the hardware for a year and you basically have something as capable as GPT3.5 - this is already possible and needs to be done only once (and you can still sell the hardware if you want) and a single dedicated person is capable of doing it by themselves. It will only get faster, and cheaper from here. Same goes for inference, still expensive to run but will get cheaper.

They’re expensive for you, a random person on the internet, but 5-10M USD is really not prohibitively expensive for a government or large company.

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I think what you meant to say is:

"OpenAI desperately wants for nobody else to be able to come along and play in their sandbox so instead of facing competition head-on and playing fair, they are going to employ "regulatory capture" and try and enjoin government to grant themselves (and a few other incumbent players) an unfair advantage over newcomers."

Looks like a bot to me

Moratorium on freaking out about AI https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai

I trust Sam to prevent human extinction.

I presume that's sarcasm, considering he spends a lot of energy preparing for that event.

Sam loves human extinction fear because it will increase his shot of licensing. When Sam says "down" "up" "left" and "right", he is actually saying "down" "up" "right" and "left". Just takes a little translation, but he comes across loud and clear.

The obsession of notOpenAi with regulation borders on psychosis