Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT
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"Why did Chinese citizens build ChatGPT in the US and let US companies pay for the computing power?" ;)
"China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot." - Lee Kuan Yew
Salaries in the US are a multiple of what they are inside China. And for the top 0.1% on the skill scale, the factor is probably 10x to 100x. Now not everyone reaches that level and many fail and burn (or suffer through un-payable student loans for many years), but still the few people that make it into OpenAI are probably paid 100x of what they could earn in their hometown in Asia.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
Jokes aside - you can replace Chinese with Indian too and still the same answer holds. There is something magical about Silicon Valley and it is definitely not about the salaries. Fwiw, bytedance pays in the 7 figures usd in Beijing!
In Poland the opposition won the 1989 election after the rules favoring the communist party loosened.
In Hungary the parliament (the very same communist one that was elected in 1985) voted ona law legalizing for freedom of association and a new electoral rule. The regime didn't change at all and the opposition only won the next election in 1990.
Romania underwent a violent revolution precipitated by the Timișoara uprising, with no U.S. connection.
Arguably the biggest U.S. involvement in a 1989 revolution was the U.S. embassy briefly negotiating with the Czechoslovakian regime after a number of American journalists were beaten by state security in the early days of the Velvet Revolution [1]. Not exactly CIA-regime-change level stuff.
Claiming significant brain drain / emigration to the US after 1989 is also a blatant falsehood. Even the population of Polish-born Americans (the most likely Eastern European group to emigrate to the U.S.) decreased through 1989-1995. The only country of origin that increased its share at the time was the Soviet Union, a country that did not undergo regime change in 1989 (and suggesting that the US somehow changed the Soviet regime in 1992 would be truly hilarious). Czech and Hungarian emigration numbers decreased immrdiately after 1989, and a whole lot of educated Eastern European citizens who were forced to leave after 1956/1968 were finally able to return to their homelands, in many cases bringing their First World educated families with them.
The American Empire will do anything to stay dominant.
> This graph showing the number and percentage of research papers published in English / Non-English [1]
> Newton’s Principia Mathematica was written in Latin; Einstein’s first influential papers were written in German; Marie Curie’s work was published in French. Yet today, most scientific research around the world is published in a single language, English. [2]
> Since the middle of the last century, things have shifted in the global scientific community. English is now so prevalent that in some non-English speaking countries, like Germany, France, and Spain, English-language academic papers outnumber publications in the country’s own language several times over. In the Netherlands, one of the more extreme examples, this ratio is an astonishing 40 to 1. [2]
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/4c61e2a0-f5fe-4851... [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/08/english-...
ChatGPT looks like the scam around the corner. I think the only uses are in the propaganda industry.