The best LLMs today require hundreds of millions of dollars to train, and something close to human level will probably take billions of dollars using the current approach. The idea that we'll need to seize the 3070s in every teenager's gaming rig in order to evaluate and monitor the most advanced models is obviously ridiculous. Training and monitoring training runs that require tens of thousands of the newest server GPUs will require no more totalitarian oppression than the International Atomic Energy Agency requires to keep track of all the world's nukes. Some of the Baptists are actually bootleggers. There is a whole profession of AI safety expert, AI ethicist, AI risk researcher. They are paid to be doomers
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