At ECAI conference last week there was a panel discussion and someone had a great quote, "in Europe we are in the golden age of AI regulation, while the US and China are in the actual golden age of AI".
"Who could've predicted?" as a sarcastic response to someone's stupid actions leading to entirely predictable consequences is probably as old as sarcasm itself.
>Moonshot 1: GPT-4 Parity (2027)
>Objective: 100B parameter model matching GPT-4 benchmarks, proving European technical viability
This feels like a joke... Parity with a 2024 model in 2027? The Chinese didn't wait, they just did it.
The timeline for #1 LLM is also so far into the future that it is entirely plausible that by 2031, nobody uses transformer based LLMs as we know them today anymore. For reference: The attention paper is only 8 years old. Some wild new architecture could come out in that time that makes catching up meaningless.
Honestly, do we need to? If the Chinese release SOTA open source models, why should we invest a ton just to have another one? We can just use theirs, that's the beauty of open source.
For the vast majority, they're not "open source" they're "open weights". They don't release the training data or training code / configs.
It's kind of like releasing a 3d scene rendered to a JPG vs actually providing someone with the assets.
You can still use it, and it's possible to fine-tune it, but it's not really the same. There's tremendous soft power in deciding LLM alignment and material emphasis. As these things become more incorporated into education, for instance, the ability to frame "we don't talk about ba sing se" issues are going to be tremendously powerful.
* Our satellites are giving us by far the best understanding of our universe, capturing one third of the visible sky in incredible detail - just check out this mission update video if you want your mind blown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCBFlIpvfQ
* Not only that, the Copernicus mission is the world's leading source for open data geoobservation: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/
* We've given the world mRNA vaccines to solve the Covid crisis and GLP-1 antagonists to solve the obesity crisis.
* CERN and is figuring out questions about the fundamental nature of the universe, with the LHC being by far the largest particle accelerator in the world, an engineering precision feat that couldn't have been accomplished anywhere else.
Pioneering, innovation and drive forward isn't just about the latest tech fad. It's about fundamental research on how our universe works. Everyone else is downstream of us.
I’m confused. Who is this “We”? Do you realize how behind in many respects most of Europe is? How it’s been parceled up and destroyed by the EU? Science projects led by a few countries doesn’t cut it.
It’s not propaganda at all. The standards of living there are shit. But enjoy the particle collider, I guess?
We is Europe. Like everywhere else, we are behind in some aspects and ahead in others.
> The standards of living there are shit.
Now you're just trolling. I've lived in both the US and in multiple EU countries. Let me tell you, the standard of living in the US does not hold a candle to the one in the EU.
