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Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure

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Re: Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure

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Post by exe34 »

m4rtink wrote: post #30
EmilStenstrom wrote: post #5

Summary of the concrete actions: 1. Early 2025: Identify Federal sites for AI data centers, clean energy facilities, and geothermal zones. Streamline permitting processes and draft reporting requirements for AI infrastructure. Develop a plan for global collaboration on trusted AI infrastructure. 2. By Mid-2025: Issue solicitations for AI infrastructure projects on Federal sites. Select winning proposals and announce…

Provided all this centralized governement owned and run infra somehow gets built, what it would be actually doing to warrant the expense ? I am quite skeptical in this regard. :P

corporate handouts.

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Post by Dowwie »

swyx wrote: post #49

what is the meaning of doing this in the last week of the biden presidency? just trying to frontrun trump saying the same thing?

It's their production release. :) After 4 years of contracting to put this work together, they published the work. Trump administration will soonafter change it to suit their vision of the next 4 instead.

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #70
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any reason whatsoever that I should think that I. J. Good's intelligence explosion model of 1965 corresponds to reality?

When I step through the logic in my mind, seems likely. Lets make the leap of faith that we can improve our AIs to actually understand code that it's reading and can suggest improvements. Current LLMs can't do it, but perhaps another approach can. I don't think this is a big leap. Might be 10 years, might be 100. It's not unreasonable to think there is a lot of cruft and optimization to be had in our current tech sta…

Let's say all of that happens. Is there any reason to believe that will lead to "a positive feedback loop of self-improvement cycles, each successive; and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing a rapid increase ("explosion") in intelligence which would ultimately result in a powerful superintelligence, qualitatively far surpassing all human intelligence"?

Or is it more reasonable to suppose that 1) all those improvements might get us a factor of 10 in efficiency, but they won't get us an intelligence that can get us another factor of 10 in efficiency, 2) each doubling of ability will take much more than doubling of the number of CPU cycles and RAM, and 3) growth will asymptotically approach some upper limit?

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Post by edouard-harris »

AyyEye wrote: post #35

I wonder if open models are even going to be allowed . > require adherence to technical standards and guidelines for cyber, supply-chain, and physical security for protecting and controlling any facilities, equipment, devices, systems, data, and other property, including AI model weights > plans for commercializing or otherwise deploying or advancing deployment of appropriate intellectual property, including AI model…

At capability levels high enough that they credibly pose a risk to national security, they obviously won't be.

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Post by SoftTalker »

JohnBooty wrote: post #58
ericmay wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would the cost be of not undertaking these actions?

In the micro, nothing. We'd have a bunch of extra cash we can spend on other stuff. In the macro? The overall goal is keeping the US competitive in technology. Both in terms of producing/controlling IP as well as (perhaps even more crucially) remaining a premier destination for technologists from all over the world. The cost of not achieving that goal is... incalculable, but large. Whether or not this is a good way t…

We have no extra cash. We are so far in debt as it is we'll never get out.

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Post by sreejithr »

edouard-harris wrote: post #76
AyyEye wrote: post #35

I wonder if open models are even going to be allowed . > require adherence to technical standards and guidelines for cyber, supply-chain, and physical security for protecting and controlling any facilities, equipment, devices, systems, data, and other property, including AI model weights > plans for commercializing or otherwise deploying or advancing deployment of appropriate intellectual property, including AI model…

At capability levels high enough that they credibly pose a risk to national security, they obviously won't be.

How can a language model pose a national security risk?

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Post by sreejithr »

Thanks from India! The last time US imposed sanctions on Cryogenic rocket engines, India developed its own indigenous engine. This is the forcing factor other countries need to decouple from US leadership which it just proved cannot be trusted.

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Post by AyyEye »

sreejithr wrote: post #78
edouard-harris wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At capability levels high enough that they credibly pose a risk to national security, they obviously won't be.

How can a language model pose a national security risk?

Governments everywhere are racing to attach them to weapons.
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