Why Open Source AI won't win --- because "Big Tech" is working hard to convince technical incompetents in government that AI is dangerous and needs to be "regulated" and "licensed".
https://news.yahoo.com/ai-tech-leaders-make-all-the-right-no...
The CEOs of leading AI companies — including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Tesla's Elon Musk and Open AI's Sam Altman — appeared before Congress once again on Wednesday.
Nothing would be effective. The singularity would have already occurred. No amount of legal and market manipulation would likely be effective at preventing despots and dictators from using AI to achieve world domination.
Fortunately for the world, the idea that a binary logic playback device (aka a computer as we know it) is capable of this is pure fantasy without any basis in fact.
VLC is illegal in the US. But it’s legal in France and that’s all that matters.
BTW, I think your statement regarding VLC is reversed, it's illegal in France but not in the USA.
TL;DR yes, presumably decss stuff
And Open Source has none.
They come from big businesses who see open source as the most effective way of reaching their goals, and as more of the tech filters out around the world, that will continue to be the case even if regulation makes that less useful in some juriadictions, making both open source in those jurisidctions and the firms that see their benefit in it less competitive.
Stolen/leaked weights? :).
> big businesses who see open source as the most effective way of reaching their goals
That is the opposite of open source winning, though. Especially with everything becoming a service - SaaS is the ultimate killer of all that open source was supposed to bring to people. That SaaS is thoroughly built on open source - that's just adding an insult to injury.
I think people need to think really hard about what those goals are.
Is it to defeat regulation? To destroy their competitors? Retain talent? Sell their non-free-and-better models?
People don’t just hand millions of dollars out on the street corner.
There’s always a catch.
…and the people using llama and falcon, etc. and enjoying how great it is are being blinded by the shiny toys and not really, imo, thinking about what it means, or how they’re playing someone else’s game.
It’s extremely naive.
That's a very good argument for not making it more powerful until we can reliably align it.