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Odd title, I’m not sure it was Anthropic’s decision. Practically this means Europe has a short window in which to catch up, while the US hobbles its own progre
by willtemperley 4mo ago
Odd title, I’m not sure it was Anthropic’s decision.
Practically this means Europe has a short window in which to catch up, while the US hobbles its own progress.
- cassianoleal 4mo agoArguably, it was Anthropic's decision to abide by their Government's orders. They could have not done so, but that would likely have consequences they weren't willing to face.
- willtemperley 4mo agoI choose to follow the law, but it’s an obligation not a decision. Framing it like this just misses the big picture entirely. A few words from a tech CEO is all it takes for this government to take extreme measures like this.
- inigyou 4mo agoViewing it as an obligation means you are weak. There are consequences to disobeying the law - a successful person will view them through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, not of dogma.
- willtemperley 4mo agoGood luck with that. I hope you’re successful in your law breaking endeavours with your highly informed cost benefit analyses.
- inigyou 4mo agoI've broken many laws. Have you not? Never crossed at a red light with no cars in sight?
- ifwinterco 4mo agoAt the end of the day it's not really a decision at all, the government has a lot of men with guns, Anthropic has (presumably) low numbers to zero of men with guns. You don't really have a choice if the government decides to play hardball
- inigyou 4mo agoThere are other things that can happen. For example, Anthropic could secretly transfer a copy of the model to a Chinese company in exchange for a large sum of yuan at a Chinese bank. Both parts of the transaction would be invisible to US authorities. I don't think this is a likely occurrence but if you think it's impossible then you need to think outside the box more.
- ifwinterco 4mo agoFair point, but doing that from inside the US under the direct view of multiple three letter agencies would be extremely risky to put it mildy
- inigyou 4mo agoIf it's lucrative but risky, it will happen.
- inglor_cz 4mo agoHow are we going to catch up if our most talented AI people have moved to Silicon Valley and get 10x the compensation they would get back home. The most egregious example: the core OpenAI team is like forty per cent Polish...?
- anonymous908213 4mo agoThe US banning those people from working on frontier models is perhaps the exact thing that would give you an opportunity, you would think.
- inglor_cz 4mo agoThe tech billionaires won't let such a ban stand. They may not GAF about random Latinos being deported from a field in Texas, but they won't simply give up people like Andrej Karpathy. Jared Kushner will get a sweet package of private Anthropic shares and everything will be forgotten.
- junofan 4mo ago[flagged]
- siva7 4mo ago10x? More like 1000x. EU doesn't have a chance except providing training for those talent only to be then aquired by US tech behemoths paying them what they are actually worth