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White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now
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Re: White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now
#62Regulating open-source AI will only help giants like Google and OpenAI, stifling innovation. It creates barriers only they can afford, limiting competition and diversity. Open-source fosters transparency and rapid progress. We do not need government regulations, or we'll end up like Europe with China leading.
The problem is that the OSI's definition of "Open Source" AI doesn't match their definition of "Open Source" software, or really anything.
I think all of the hand-wringing about open weights vs. open source, and which term to use, is an ideological point people are getting stuck on. I don’t think it’s a real problem.
Re: White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now
#63Regulating open-source AI will only help giants like Google and OpenAI, stifling innovation. It creates barriers only they can afford, limiting competition and diversity. Open-source fosters transparency and rapid progress. We do not need government regulations, or we'll end up like Europe with China leading.
> It creates barriers only they can afford, limiting competition and diversity. I would argue this is inherent to the training and compute cost of all large language models.
Small models can be fine-tuned to perform specific tasks with similar accuracy to large models. Small models can be served for internal use with a VERY modest hardware outlay.
There are also providers now that will let you upload low-rank adapters you have trained in top of open foundational models, so that you can use their efficient serverless infrastructure with your fine-tuned models. This requires even less capital.
None of this would exist had OpenAI’s vision of centralized, locked-down API access become the reality.
Re: White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now
#64Better question: Is it possible to restrict open source AI? If it is open then everyone has access. Any restrictions would be akin to demanding that linux not use strong encryption or firefox implement content censorship.
Intel Management Engine bug to find those computers which are using the free model?
Re: White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' AI at least for now
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
$64K isn’t even one developer’s salary.
And how many people can afford to pay a developer's salary after utilities and mortgage?
I think you’re missing my point: hiring someone is not that costly relative to training a billion-dollar model from scratch, so the barrier is definitely getting lower. An individual proprietor with a moderately successful business (or just business loans, let’s face it) can hire at least a couple of employees.