Governments believe in their power. Sadly, their power seems to reside in screwing things up.
I guess this is to be expected when this class, politicians and bureaucrats are in charge. We have these political hacks who are in power of both parties, bringing level of incompetence to the table.
In the United States, we have Mitch McConnel, a lawyer who has been in the Senate since 1985. That would make him qualified to understand what is going on with AI. Then we have Elizabeth Warren, every crypto fans favorite politician. Her extensive background as a law school professor certainly gives her great insight into cryptography and what is taking place.
Those can do; those who can't teach (or go into Congress).
Now we have the situation where governments are trying to tackle AI. These people are completely out to lunch.
Governments Are Going To Screw This Up
There are calls for regulation. This is not only coming from Capitol Hill but also from people like Sam Altman. Mr. OpenAi himself doesnt believe in open source AI. He feels that it is not safe in the hands of everyone.
Of course, we are all expected to believe that we are safe with him at the helm.
Altman went so far as to call for the banning of open source models. This is how he intends to keep it out of the hands of nefarious actors.
What Altman is seeking is regulatory capture. This is where the government creates an approved cartel of Big Tech companies who can operate within this realm. Nobody else is allowed to enter.
Naturally, this is foolishness since, even if that was the case in the US, what about the Chinese? Japanese? Koreans? The Sudanese?
While many are likely out of the race due to the financial aspects, there are a lot of companies around the world who are entering this race.
What are you going to do about them?
The Illegal Download Of Music
Do you remember Napster?
For those old enough, this is what broke the music industry, at least from the record companies perspective.
This was a file sharing program that took things by storm. It allowed for the sharing of files in a peer-to-peer manner. What was contained in the files was of no consequence to the platform.
People quickly learned that music could be shared. This was copyrighted material that was protected by law. The only challenge was who was responsible?
Napster didn't host the content. Instead, it just performed the handshake. The company was obviously targeted and ultimately was shut down.
This did not end the story. Over the years, other programs like that cropped up. There was Limewire and Kazaa. Both did the same thing. Of course, there are still readers out there that operate on the Usenet.
The point to all of this is what happened?
I recall concluding around 2005 that the government was completely out of its element. Record companies had taken to suing their own customers, something that did result in a few judgments. Nevertheless, the damage was beyond repair.
What resulted was the record companies losing money on recorded music for 18 years. It was only in the last few that they started to turn a profit.
To this day, it is not too difficult to get material of this nature. Many have taken to posting their content on sites such as YouTube simply to garner some ad revenue.
Reactive Nature
Governments tendency is to be reactive. They are also slow. When it comes to AI, this is too far gone.
We are dealing with things moving at a speed never foreseen before. Here is an idea of what we are looking at:
https://inleo.io/threads/view/taskmaster4450le/re-taskmaster4450le-gfmde2lu
This is a pace we have never seen when you compound the results. It also does not include the amount of total AI compute that is being put out there, doubling at an estimated twice per year.
Even when studying this, it is hard to keep up. Yet the people in office are leading us to believe they know what is best.
It is absolutely absurd.
Of course, this doesn't stop people like Sam Altman from trying to maneuver the system in his favor. If it is up to him, he is the only one who can be trusted.
Ironic since OpenAi just suffered a hack.
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