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*sigh* Can we not go one day without more people blowing smoke and mirror press releases about "AI" that are less intelligent than an amoeba and cluttering up news feeds just to con investors into thinking there's a fire because of how much stinking smoke corporations are churning out to scream "Me too!"?
This is about open source AI as much as a newly sealed time capsule "to be opened in 3023AD" is open. It's because all of those alliance companies got caught flat foot and are going into panic mode over a technology that's still as much smoke and mirrors as it was in the '80s. They're jealous of OpenAI's publicity and all the credulous investors that always seems to bring in each bubble cycle. The problem is, no one can possibly scream loud enough to be heard over the mob to say "This is a supremely bad idea!" and not because of tinfoil hat fears of Skynet. It's because those systems used to churn out models use up more electricity than entire countries. So much so companies are kicking around ideas of buying or building their own power plants just to keep up with demand. Regardless of how they generate electricity, those plants are generating heat, that heat has to go somewhere just so some half-literate high school grad can lie to their boss with how smart they are by asking a LLM to generate a report on data they never produced to begin with (or a whole host of other lies, deceptions, and biased articles, literature, art, and even laws).
This is about open source AI as much as a newly sealed time capsule "to be opened in 3023AD" is open. It's because all of those alliance companies got caught flat foot and are going into panic mode over a technology that's still as much smoke and mirrors as it was in the '80s. They're jealous of OpenAI's publicity and all the credulous investors that always seems to bring in each bubble cycle. The problem is, no one can possibly scream loud enough to be heard over the mob to say "This is a supremely bad idea!" and not because of tinfoil hat fears of Skynet. It's because those systems used to churn out models use up more electricity than entire countries. So much so companies are kicking around ideas of buying or building their own power plants just to keep up with demand. Regardless of how they generate electricity, those plants are generating heat, that heat has to go somewhere just so some half-literate high school grad can lie to their boss with how smart they are by asking a LLM to generate a report on data they never produced to begin with (or a whole host of other lies, deceptions, and biased articles, literature, art, and even laws).
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