The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600
Stanford's Alpaca AI performs similarly to the astonishing ChatGPT on many tasks – but it's built on an open-source language model and cost less than US$600 to train up. It seems these godlike AIs are already frighteningly cheap and easy to replicate.
This seems like a real Pandora's box situation. I don't like it.
We don’t have to like it. The ship has sailed as far as preventing the development of such programs. Now we’re entering the proverbial AI arms race. As everyone and their brother will be racing to develop their own versions of ChatGPT and develop them even further.
Frankly we don’t have a choice on whether or not to participate as a nation. If we don’t join the race. We’ll be at a decided disadvantage on the economic and Military front.
On a personal level. You can limit its presence in your life. But at a National and Societal level barring a dramatic event. You wouldn’t be able to stop it’s development without placing your nation and society a severe Economic, Political, and Military disadvantage.
Our best bet as far as a safety perspective goes is for more and more of them to go Open Source. Not necessarily ideal. But better then nothing