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How to solve all AI-oversight issues at a stroke: Nationalised Foundation Models and free GPU access in Public Libraries; cc: @vestager

2024-02-19 20:52:30+00:00

Apparently the big problem with Foundation Models is not that they are a concordance of online speech which — given enough time and resource — absolutely anyone can build, which is an issue that nobody wants to address yet.

No, the problem is Capitalism, and Monopoly, and apparently all these companies giving away foundation models for free is all about establishing dominance or something.

There’s a simple solution: the countries should build their own and give them away for free themselves, therefore the marginal cost of creation (or something like that) means that people will stop using risky corporate-sourced foundation models, and instead will obviously use ones created by sensible countries like Norway or Sweden or Switzerland or something like that. Perhaps even the UN could create one?

The experts in each country can then ensure that its National Foundation Model (NFM) is free from bias and racism and even free from political opinion, and therefore perfect for use by citizens to perform useful tasks — and as an incentive, use of the NFM will lower regulatory and compliance burdens.

And then we — the citizens — will just pop down to the local public library, each of which (the larger ones, just to start) will be equipped with a handful of H100s in rack-mounts, each wired-up to a Raspberry Pi.

Nationalised AI Utilities: the perfect solution for corporate monopolies.

Simply look at the NHS by comparison.

@vestager raises concerns on fair competition in Artificial Intelligence foundation models:



There are "huge barriers to entry…it's very difficult if you not have access to sufficient amounts of GPUs, to sufficient amounts of data." https://t.co/kP4cRDY1xv — Samuel Stolton (@SamuelStolton) February 19, 2024

Create GPUs as a public utility. https://t.co/fjmfg5E56a — Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) February 19, 2024
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