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chii 66 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The dead economy theory

> would all be using the same AI model

i think this is a very large assumption.

What if in the future, AI models are as guarded as nuclear weapons? Because why doesn't this argument apply for nuclear weapons, but does for AI?

wallst07 66 days ago [–]

Because AI models can create other ones and the weights/training data is what models. So you can hoard data, but not the models.

ijk 66 days ago | [–]

Hence the drive to control the compute hardware. If your competitors can't run inference at competitive scale and cost, they can't challenge you.

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