This proposal is the US doing that bicycle/stick meme, it will backfire spectacularly.

Now it turns out they were just bullshitting at Google.

I don't think Google was bullshitting when they wrote, documented and released Tensorflow, BERT and flan-t5 to the public. Their failure to beat OpenAI in a money-pissing competition really doesn't feel like it reflects on their capability (or intentions) as a company. It certainly doesn't feel like they were "bullshitting" anyone.

> The innovation is largely happening within the megacorps anyway

That was the part I was replying to. Whichever megacorp this is, it’s not Google.

The flan quantizations are also still pretty close to SOTA for text transformers. Their quality-to-size ratio is much better than a 7b Llama finetune, and it appears to be what Apple based their new autocorrect off of.

Given current data volume used during the training phase (tb/s), I highly doubt it's possible without two, magnitude changing, breakthroughs at once

I believe that is the relevant section, which I am hoping they realize how dumb this is going to be.

Not even Oracle dared to pull shit like this w/ Java.

But this would be akin to them saying "you know, bytecode could be used for evil, and we'd to regulate/outlaw the development of new virtual machines like the one we already have".

P.S. I'm from one of the said countries

this cat is already out of the bag, so this is pointless legislation that just hampers progress

I have already had good-actor success with uncensored models

This isn't legislation.

And its not proposing anything except soliciting input from a broad range of civil society groups and writing a report. If the report calls for dumb regulatory ideas, that’ll be appropriate to complain about. But “there’s a thing that is happening that seems like it might have big effects, gather input from experts and concerned parties and then writeup findings on the impacts and what, if any, action seems warranted is... not a particularly alarming thing.

This is insanity. I have to be missing something, what else do the safeguards prevent the LLM from doing? This has to be more about this than like preventing an LLM from using bad words or showing support for Trump...

How dumb its going to be to... solicit input from a wide range of different areas and write a report?

I agree that it is concerning the way it's open-ended. But where is the actual outlawing?

(I can imagine recommendations that benefit incumbents by, for instance, placing such high burden on government adoption of open weight models that OpenAI is a much more attractive purchase. But that’s not the same as what you’re talking about.)

I dunno, the EO seems pretty easy to read. Am I missing something in the text?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Disobey.

So, literally, they can’t enforce it without consulting with industry, since enforcement is just sonewhat in the government holding someone else in government accountable for consulting with, among others, the industry.

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