Yeah that's a common claim amongst leaders that try closing their economies. But you end up with sucky people and a sucky culture and it never works out well. Closed source models vs open source models is a very different question to closed economies vs open economies.
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Big Tech Power Concentration Threatens US Talent Attraction
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Having such power concentration in big tech companies would also create use social problems, which would further detract from US capability, including reducing their ability to attract the best talent.
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China US AI Competition and Scientific Participation Impact
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Greatly accelerate relative progress of China vs US. They would be able to fully participate in the global scientific community, whereas US would be hamstrung. Pre-meiji Japan thought that they would be best staying closed. It doesn't work great in practice.
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Open-sourcing GPT-4 and Claude 3.5: AGI acceleration and safety implications
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Alt history: What if OpenAI & Anthropic open-sourced GPT-4 & Claude 3.5 (including data & algorithms)? Would it:
Accelerate AGI?
Boost AI adoption?
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Concentration of AI Power and Systemic Collapse Risks
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If you want to pull that all down and limit the world's greatest source of power to a select few, why wouldn't that cause everything to fall apart.
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Why are some users keeping this heavily criticized AI product?
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I mean, the fact that not 100% of people haven't returned it after the tidal wave of negative reviews is… pretty astounding. Are the holdouts seeing something the rest of us aren't?
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Musk threatens lawsuit against X advertising boycotters
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Musk: Advertisers who boycott X can go f*** themselves
— Ryan Browne (@Ryan_Browne_) 7 août 2024
Also Musk: Boycotting X is actually illegal and we’re suing https://t.co/GJvnVJkhgaMusk: Advertisers who boycott X can go f*** themselves Also Musk: Boycotting X is actually illegal and we’re suing
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Insurtech Report: AI Applications Across Six Categories
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The report divides the insurtech space into 6 categories: claim & fraud management, digital brokerage and comparison platforms, digital insurers, marketing, sales & distribution, policy administration & admintech, and underwriting & risk analysis.
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Antitrust Cases Drive Tech Giants to New Stock Heights
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Wall Street’s Best Ideas: What, Google worry? I’m reminded of what venture capitalist Roger McNamee said to me last November: “Each anti-trust case unleashed one or more massive new industries […] The target company always went to new stock price highs that continued more or
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AI Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact Analysis
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[1] https://www.theverge com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption [2] https://www.numenta com/blog/2023/08/10/ai-is-harming-our-planet-2023/