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> I think we're going to suddenly see them greatly scale back training and try to sell inference-only

Remember a few weeks ago when all the AI labs said "we need to slow down, to uh, prevent destroying the world"?

Ding!

In this version of conspiracy theory, all the labs secretly understood that training wasn't economically feasible anymore so they all jointly made it look like they were stopping for safety reasons.

Is there no end to this kind of lazy conspiracy theory

You don't need to communicate to coordinate. All these companies have the same business model, if it was financially advantageous for one of them to push that narrative, then it's financially advantageous for all of them.

Or all the big ones are content with the current status quo and willing to compete amongst each other and want to shut the door to upstarts.

You see it time and time again.

So the more likely answer is they are on the verge of making super intelligence that could kill us all?

No. But more likely that they, the labs, are acting in good faith.

That's not required, merely that the labs _think_ there is a _chance_ (like Coxon's 10%) that they are on the verge of it.

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