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The driving force of this growth seems to be largely LLMs, is what I think she means.
True, I’m not blind to the rapid growth of Chinese LLMs, I’ve even got one sitting on my SSD right now. I just think that people seem to be overly focused on LLMs when there is a much broader field that is quietly advancing the productive forces, which is sadly underreported on.
I agree, but I think this is a product of a lot of the development and (especially) marketing and investment being focused on LLMs.
I hope it's understandable that people might doubt what you're saying when your material interests are for the technology you're using to succeed.
I'm not saying the technology is inherently evil, but I am interested in how exactly is China developing it. I'm hearing too much focus about the destination here, not enough focus on the means to achieve it.
But you wouldn't have such a huge amount of profit if you actually paid the people who contribute towards making it now, would you? Just because they might actually put it forward something useful later doesn't justify them just taking it like that.
Hmm, if you’re asking about me specifically, the LLMs I have on my PC are small and vastly outclassed by models hosted online. I don’t have a specific use case for them other than personal amusement and familiarising myself with the technology, and I don’t gain much from using them either.
As for how China specifically is developing this technology, the main positive aspect is that a majority of LLMs released by Chinese firms and research groups have the model weights open under free software licenses, so everyone can download and tweak them.
Certainly, I do not think that Chinese tech firms have the people’s interests at heart any more than other companies, but given that a push for open source AI is explicitly part of the 14th 5 year plan, I think it’s pretty clear the CPC is aware of the exploitative potential of these technologies, and is actively working to minimise the risk.
Just to be clear this is an example of what I meant by exploitation and the workers I am concerned about: https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rani;%20Gobel;%20Dhir_Development%20of%20AI.pdf
I'm hoping China isn't contributing to this and handles it much better. It's not their responsibility to babysit USA, but if they are benefiting from the exploitation USA does I hope they at least consider returning the favor to the workers, when they are able.