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> E.g., I don’t at all understand the linkage between current events and the schism between the Catholic Church and Protestants denoms. His point is that LLMs
by ftxbro 3y ago
> E.g., I don’t at all understand the linkage between current events and the schism between the Catholic Church and Protestants denoms.
His point is that LLMs are a disruptive technology at the level of the printing press. The power structure most famously disrupted by the printing press was that of the Catholic Church.
EDIT: Yeah this isn't what he's saying. His analogy is more like the major LLM companies like OpenAI or Google are like the Catholic Church which is being disrupted by European regulations which are like the protestants. Or the opposite. He literally says both ways as possibilities. And in this analogy the open models (the refinements of the 'leaked' LLaMa models which can fit on a single GPU) are like the wacky persecuted fringe sects which were exiled to the United States and which he thinks shouldn't be called as either Catholic or Protestant. At the end he says "This is, admittedly, a rather speculative and far-reaching Article" which I have to agree.
- Sai_ 3y agoThat’s what I thought too but I went and reread that part. He’s saying something else. The American companies like Google/OpenAI (trying to export AI globally) are on one side, opposing them are Europeans (who want AI to be controlled, licensed, and regulated). Together, these two regimes are the Catholic Church and mainstream Protestantism of AI. Opposing both these sides are open source AI models. He calls this group radical reformers like the Amish. Yeah, don’t ask. This much brilliance in way above my pay grade.
- ftxbro 3y agoHe says "This is where history is interesting to consider, particularly the invention that I have long held is most analogous to the Internet: the printing press." Maybe his main metaphor for disruption is the printing press and he already used it for talking about the internet. Now there is a new disruptive thing, so he has to make his metaphor more complicated if he doesn't want to look like he's repeating himself.
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