Parity in AI isn’t what China is after—China doesn’t want to preserve the status quo. We want to win. We want AI hegemony. We want to be years ahead of the US in terms of our AIs. And frankly, we’re not that far behind—the recent Baidu LLMs perform somewhere between GPT2 and GPT3. To tie is to lose. Stopping the race now is the same as losing.
I also don’t see how LLMs can destabilize China in the near-term. Spam/propaganda isn’t a big issue since you need to submit your real-life ID in order to post on Chinese sites.
If that’s true, how do you explain the proposed guidelines that make it harder to train big models in China? The proposed guidelines suggest that the Cyberspace Administration of China believes that there are reasons that warrant slowing down LLM progress in China.
Parity in AI isn’t what China is after—China doesn’t want to preserve the status quo. We want to win. We want AI hegemony. We want to be years ahead of the US in terms of our AIs. And frankly, we’re not that far behind—the recent Baidu LLMs perform somewhere between GPT2 and GPT3. To tie is to lose. Stopping the race now is the same as losing.
I also don’t see how LLMs can destabilize China in the near-term. Spam/propaganda isn’t a big issue since you need to submit your real-life ID in order to post on Chinese sites.
If that’s true, how do you explain the proposed guidelines that make it harder to train big models in China? The proposed guidelines suggest that the Cyberspace Administration of China believes that there are reasons that warrant slowing down LLM progress in China.