at least they admit the competitive landscape is a factor rather than going 100% with "it's for safety reasons". I'm sure somebody will release an equivalent soon, the way open source has completely surpassed OpenAI when they try to keep things closed like DALLE vs Stable Diffusion shows that OpenAI really isn't that special, they just have a sweetheart deal with Microsoft
I wouldn't be surprised if this tech goes through some kind of export control regulation similar to what cryptography went through in the 90s. Remember the T-Shirt with the RSA source code that was classified as a munition?
seems like controlling access to GPUs would be the more likely/easier solution for governments. Not many facilities that can produce them and easy to track the huge amounts needed for this scale of computing
After the Llama and ggml projects that came to light in the last few weeks, it's more likely they'd have to control access to CPUs as well. Good luck with that.
If I were “they” I’d try to control systems with >128GB RAM capacity and clustering aids e.g. 40GE and PCIe bridging cards. That should be semi doable.
I mean, most AI technologies are already considered ITAR for the sole sake of maintaining a competitive advantage. At least, that's what my last two employers have told me and I hope I didn't go through all of that training for nothing.
