https://www.semafor.com/article/03/15/2 ... ier-warned
Domestic AI firms are said to rely excessively on Meta’s Llama system: an open source family of large language models (LLMs) that developers used to train AI services such as ChatGPT and its competitors.
Meanwhile, United States export restrictions on semiconductor technology to China mean that firms have struggled to create chips powerful enough to support domestic LLMs that have the same training capabilities as Llama.
China is racing to compete with Silicon Valley for AI dominance internationally, while the government has underscored the importance of being self-reliant in science and technology — but tech leaders fear a widening gap with the United States.
its much easier when you steal western designs and dont need to do it yourself.
“A chatbot model trained only on vetted information encircled by China’s Great Firewall is unlikely to be as effective as a foreign competitor that draws on a wider and more diverse corpus of sources,” Beijing-based journalist Michael Schuman wrote for The Atlantic last year. Chinese researchers are well aware of the limitations they face. During the presentation in Beijing, Li was told that a unique challenge faced by Chinese LLMs is “quality content that is in line with facts”, the South China Morning Post reported — a euphemism for ensuring that training models stick closely to Chinese Communist Party-sanctioned information and ideology.
oh noes, out woking the wokes.
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which isnt to say I dont think China will catch up but as someone inside the industry, most of the commentary so far has been comical
their is a tiny handful of engineers in both the chip design and chip manufacture world who are on the cutting edge, they are jealously protected, and anyone starting clean room is either going to be extremely lucky, or a decade behind for quite some time.
the only reason china is in the game at all is because the west freely gave them the technology and let them copy it.
now, those chips are being used to blow up westerners with Iranian and Russian drones.
we would have to be idiots to keep giving them technology.
