But it's not just this. By accepting the frame that such access is vital/necessary, we're buying into Big Tech marketing that says AI is real, lasting, and requires the diversion of billion$ (that could be spent otherwise). 5/
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Big Tech AI Control Problem: Current Solutions Risk Extending Dominance
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Notable that this longstanding problem, which I and a few others have been naming for ~a decade, is now common sense. It's true. AI is fundamentally a technology controlled by Big Tech. But the current 'solutions' to this problem would extend, not dilute, Big Tech control. 1/ https://
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Big Tech dominance limits academic AI research access
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The issue: Big Tech has the $$ infrastructure, data, ability to pay talent, and access to market which no one else does. So as academics, you either pay retail for access, or get it discounted/free by yoking yourself to Big Tech (via dual affiliation, or just being hired). 2/
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Two GPT-4 Level LLMs Released in One Week
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Two GPT-4 level LLMs in a week… let's see how OpenAI responds
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GenAI dominates 80% of AI investment, stifles alternatives
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GenAI is probably 80%+ of AI investment right now. Maybe more. That is the monopoly I was and am referring to. Some of it is from VC, some internal from companies. Very little oxygen for alternative approaches right now.
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Monopoly on AI Investment Sector Discussed
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It’s a monopoly in a sector, viz on *investment in AI* I didn’t say people didn’t (or wouldn’t in my alternative history) still build tractors or fintech or whatever. Very uncharitable reading, put in rather kind words.
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AI Company Faces Competition, Legal Troubles, Strategic Challenges
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Sure but they also have already 4 close competitors that have largely caught up, with at least one competing on price, a dozen or so lawsuits, upcoming licensing costs, at least 2 or 3 federal investigations, no moat, high operating costs, and a desperate need to build something
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Microsoft needs unified central personality for multiple copilots
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If only there was a central “personality” that could unify the dozens of copilots that Microsoft is releasing
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LLM Alignment: Ethics vs PR in the Real World
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In an ideal world, the battle over aligning LLMs would be between ethicists and epistemologists. In reality, it seems to be between activists and PR strategists
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Ethics Gap: When Saying Problems Out Loud Becomes Problematic
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It displays good adaptation to a culture that understands ethics as avoiding to look problematic in public but fails to observe that it looks problematic if you say it out loud. Now there is a bad story on twitter