Nuclear weapons… somewhat complicated to build and complicated to maintain, mass-produce, transport, smuggle, hide, and use.
Models on the other hand are just software. You can download Fable / Mythos / Praxia / Concordicon and hide a copy in your shoe. You can make two copies even! One per shoe!
We have lived through decades now of the glorious open source revolution so it’s easy to forget about a different time, in the 1990s, when a black market in CDs jammed full of cracked, slightly off branded copies of Windows / Photoshop / Corel / Office, etc. was all the rage.
Execution isn’t trivial. If anything should be controlled like nuclear weapons, again like the 90s, it ought to be compute hardware. I’m not sure it should.
Not only that, but it also relies on assumption that everything that LLM does cannot be factored into small reasoning core (something like Lean or Prolog, but in more modal/fuzzy logic) plus knowledge base (like Wikipedia).
It then raises a question, which of these two is really the precious thing. (Although there could be a 3rd thing, a memoization of some shortcuts, like tautologies in logic.)
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Nuclear weapons… somewhat complicated to build and complicated to maintain, mass-produce, transport, smuggle, hide, and use.
Models on the other hand are just software. You can download Fable / Mythos / Praxia / Concordicon and hide a copy in your shoe. You can make two copies even! One per shoe!
We have lived through decades now of the glorious open source revolution so it’s easy to forget about a different time, in the 1990s, when a black market in CDs jammed full of cracked, slightly off branded copies of Windows / Photoshop / Corel / Office, etc. was all the rage.
Execution isn’t trivial. If anything should be controlled like nuclear weapons, again like the 90s, it ought to be compute hardware. I’m not sure it should.
Not only that, but it also relies on assumption that everything that LLM does cannot be factored into small reasoning core (something like Lean or Prolog, but in more modal/fuzzy logic) plus knowledge base (like Wikipedia).
It then raises a question, which of these two is really the precious thing. (Although there could be a 3rd thing, a memoization of some shortcuts, like tautologies in logic.)