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Robert Wright and Andrew Day discuss items from the Earthling.
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Sam Altman’s Big, Bad Idea
This week Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of microchip maker NVIDIA, said that all nations should build their own high-powered large language models. That way, he said, they will have “sovereign AI.” That way they will also make him even richer than he is. Training a big LLM takes tens of thousands of microchips that cost tens of thousands of dollars each. And NVIDIA, which now has the third highest market valuation in the world (behind Microsoft and Apple), dominates the AI chipmaking business.
Recorded February 16, 2024.
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