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It would be great if all NeurIPS talks were accessible for free like this one. I understand they generate some revenue from online ticket sales, but it would be a great resource. Maybe some big org could sponsor it.

Q3-7 & Q3-5d get to the workability. I don't think OpenAI responds to that part of the RFC. Meta's comment on that issue seems to be fairly clear, they oppose the proposed rules on KYC for IaaS and are "not aware of technical capabilities that could not be overcome by determined, well-resourced, and capable actors".

https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/open_m...

https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NTIA-RFC-Met...

The question the blog asks on election procedure is easy to get right, why does ChatGPT refuse to answer? I'd bet the answer it would otherwise produce is reasonable. Perplexity gives a fine answer. The collateral damage from fixing hallucinations seems to hurt accessibility.

There are all kinds of externalities, including safety, which are ignored. US tax policy which allows write offs only for large vehicles which are more likely to cause deaths. Tire emissions. Congestion pricing -- common in Europe -- needs years or reviews and lawsuits. NHTSA doesn't require bicycle test devices.

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1733481002234679685

The EU AI Act negotiations ended. One contentious issue was the regulation of foundation models, particularly open source ones.

Kudos to the French, German, and Italian governments for not giving up on open source models.

Juicy part: "The legislation ultimately included restrictions for foundation models but gave broad exemptions to “open-source models,” which are developed using code that’s freely available for developers to alter for their own products and tools. The move could benefit open-source AI companies in Europe that lobbied against the law, including France’s Mistral and Germany’s Aleph Alpha, as well as Meta, which released the open-source model LLaMA."

No one knows how it works. Researchers simulate a weird type of pseudo-neural-tissue, “reward” it a little every time it becomes a little more like the AI they want, and eventually it becomes the AI they want.

There is a distinction to be made in "knowing how it works" on architecture vs weights themselves.

Arguendo, assume Facebook lobbied for it. If only one market player doesn't follow an industry standard on public interest (consensus which prevents industry regulation), of course other players should lobby to get the player out.

I won't repeat fact that this number is low.

But the bigger problem with the article IMO is the fact that this is degrowth. Why is the electricity consumption important? Carbon is the real metric. Big server operators (meta, aws, azure, gcp) already either are 100% zero-carbon powered or on track to be.

Regardless, if grid needs to add capacity for EVs, heat pumps, other electrification goals, why are servers (probably low impact) important?