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> Nations including India, Japan, France and Canada are talking about the importance of investing in “sovereign AI capabilities,” Huang said in an interview Thu
by koolba 3y ago
> Nations including India, Japan, France and Canada are talking about the importance of investing in “sovereign AI capabilities,” Huang said in an interview Thursday with Bloomberg Television. “Their natural resource – data – should be refined and produced for their country. The recognition of sovereign AI capabilities is global.”
Data as a natural resource is an interesting analogy. Especially if you frame it in the category of nuclear fissile material.
- tomoyoirl 3y agoBut why would we do that? Nuclear fissile material is noted for its ability to be formed into weapons that generate dangerous explosions and substances both acutely and chronically hazardous to human life, increasing cancer risk. This is not a particularly obvious analogy to “data”.
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- ethbr1 3y agoI expect you could learn a lot of things from an open data feed into another country's population. The TikTok fears are limited to capturing like/don't-like. Generalize that to the massive amount of data streaming between cloud models and back?
- koolba 3y agoThe analogy is the costs and risks of storage. Data might not cause cancer if you stand next to it, but there’s plenty of risks involved in mass accumulation of data controlled by government entities. And anything that gives more incentive for that accumulation, like being able to run in house ML models, will surely lead to even more accumulation.
- tomoyoirl 3y agoSounds like this is an analogy better served by nuclear waste than by fissile material.
- hackerlight 3y ago"This is not a particularly obvious analogy to “data”." Future ASI being dangerous is very feasible. For arguments, see LessWrong or Bostrom's work.
- arugulum 3y agoIt is no coincidence that EleutherAI named their pretraining dataset "the Pile"