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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

This is just what we always see for these kinds of things.

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

So the thing to acknowledge here is diffusion, right?

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

A given capability gets cheaper over time.

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

I used to need to run it on a big server.

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

Now I can run it on a smartphone.

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

That's definitely the case, right?

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

So yes, we will see more workloads being on edge.

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

For privacy reasons, we see Apple being bad on these kinds of things.

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

But even Apple is kind of acknowledging.

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

It's like, damn, there are certain questions.

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

You can't do them locally.

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

You're going to run out of battery power.

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

We sent them up to the cloud and they came up with a really fancy architecture to preserve privacy.

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

That was super fancy.

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

And these are the things I'm expecting, right?

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

So I'll usually say, if I want to set a reminder, sure, my LLM on my smartphone can do this.

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

If I ask for the meaning of life, well, hopefully it goes up to the server and it's processing and generates five books and tells me what the meaning of life is.

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

So I expect this trend to generally continue, that we just see these kinds of things.

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

While, again, one curve is going up, the best capabilities will always be in the biggest servers, roughly, whereas a given capability goes down over time and will diffuse across.

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

And that's definitely a national security challenge.