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Sign of a coming AI arms race? If the image generation market is getting too saturated, maybe OpenAI can sell something to the government. No one has deeper po
by bottlepalm 4y ago
Sign of a coming AI arms race?
If the image generation market is getting too saturated, maybe OpenAI can sell something to the government. No one has deeper pockets.
- RosanaAnaDana 4y agoMore likely a landwar in asia.
- Guthur 4y agoBetween whom? Hard to see any particular country having the desire or where for all to undertake such an endeavour.
- hoppyhoppy2 4y agoRussia/Ukraine
- blackoil 4y agoThat's Europe.
- withinboredom 4y agoEurasia, technically Russia spans both continents.
- freeflight 4y agoGeographically they ain't even considered separate continents.
- Bud 4y agoMiiiiiight wanna review where 75% of Russia is.
- qwytw 4y agoSo when US is fighting a war in the middle east it's actually happening in the Caribbean because US has territory there?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThe 25% of Russia where people live is in Europe.
- RosanaAnaDana 4y agoChina/Taiwan
- Guthur 4y agoNot really a land war. Also China has desire to resolve the civil war by other means.
- kwere 4y agoYes, but chairman Xi is stupid enough to launch an invasion even involuntarily due to military provocations (misfires) to quell unrest at home by projecting anger outside.
- spaceman_2020 4y agoFrom either of these countries perspective, this would be a civil war.
- Victerius 4y agoChina and India.
- na85 4y ago>where for all Wherewithal?
- Guthur 4y agoThanks
- spaceman_2020 4y agoNot that there's anything coming up right now, but Pakistan is looking extremely fragile right now with a dead economy and an unprecedented natural disaster. That, along with a more right wing India can't be good news.
- bottlepalm 4y agoTaiwan is where these cards come from right?
- RosanaAnaDana 4y agoThats my understanding.
- throw0101c 4y agoNot inconceivable …
- systemvoltage 4y agoThe scariest aspect of geopolitics is how quickly things change. It is probably because normal times appear in slow motion geopolitically.
- gpt5 4y agoFor those who don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo
- colechristensen 4y agoThere’s a long history of the top tier of computing hardware being export controlled. This is more of a recognition (a bit late eh?) of the utility of these graphics cards, though really it’s about time we started calling them something else.
- nomel 4y agoAn AI arms race will be limited by the silicon it's built on. The arms race will be in the fabrication of the chips. You can only scale old nodes so far. The cheapest solution out of all the possibilities is to just use a back channel to get them, of course.
- RichardCNormos 4y agoI've always hoped that the US would restrict hardware exports under ITAR, as AI is absolutely a military weapon. I doubt, though, that they will restrict the export of the raw material for creating AI: data.
- withinboredom 4y agoThey can’t even get their own companies to restrict the use of their citizen’s data lol.
- alphabetting 4y agoAllowing US companies to serve people relevant ads and allowing US companies to aid our number one adversary in developing the most potentially dangerous technology humans will every create are two very different things.
- soulofmischief 4y agoConvince me that mass surveillance in a genocidal police state is not one of the most potentially dangerous technologies humans will ever create.
- freeflight 4y ago> Allowing US companies to serve people relevant ads Except these companies do way more than just serve innocent ads, as the Snowden reveals have showed; They are complicit in way more than that.
- Bakary 4y agoAs someone from outside either country, neither the US nor China developing AI sounds particularly appealing.
- viraptor 4y agoThey can, but don't. Applying specific restrictions and switching from small fines to business-continuity-affecting rulings would solve the issue very quickly.
- nine_k 4y agoSince we have Cold War II (with the hot war still not fought by NATO), we should expect similarities to Cold War I: bans on high-tech exports, classifying more stuff, even public lies in an attempt to misdirect the adversary (see [SDI]). Good thing if encryption is not declared munition as it was back then [W]. [SDI]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative [W]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States#Cold_War_era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoIndeed it is in the past tense now unofficially, rather than completely covertly.