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Lennart Heim

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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Yeah, I think I don't want to go forward and say it is this, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

I'm just saying it's like, look, there has been this hyper focus on benchmark capabilities on chatbot arena to measure the AI US rates.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

I was like, man, I think it's more complicated.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Eventually, it really depends what you want to measure and what you're worried about.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

If I care about national security, I measure different things than if I care about like economic diffusion, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

To some degree for national security, I might not even care about how many users are using a chatbot to get better cooking recipes.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Right.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

But I care a lot about if you have, I don't know, a million drones embedded with AI or like two drones embedded with AI.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Right.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

So the argument which I'm just putting forward is more just like we need to understand how export controls, which the US government is doing on its AI chips, are actually working.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

What to expect and what not to expect, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

I think there's a world where like pure raw model capabilities matter a ton.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

It depends how you think the iFuture is going to go, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

If there's going to be an Oracle in the future and it just tells me the truth to the universe, hell yeah.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And that's like, what, 10,000 tokens?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Amazing.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

I think that's quite not plausible.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

I think the future will just look way more complicated and it's actually about people using the systems.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Now we are saying this, like having a car is something, but you actually need to drive it, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And then it's not you driving it, everybody needs to drive it, right?