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At some point the U.S. government should step up and provide some resources, and offer large datasets for open acess training and pretrained models. In the future, there will be many AI models for various purposes, closed source, guarded, with their moat being the costs to train a similar model on a dataset of similar breadth. This eliminates smaller orgs from ever being able to offer a competing model, and ruins innovation by gatekeeping who is allowed to innovate.

This is exactly the sort of role government is made for. To uplift the collective using the power the collective possess as a massive meta organism. Opening up access to these models will allow our developers to compete against the world and dominate in this space, much like how international researchers in other fields often leave their home countries for the U.S. to get at the resources needed to even engage in cutting edge research (such as institutional access to equipment, compute, data, and research funding that simply doesn't exist in other places).

>>asdff+(OP)
I feel like at the moment governments are equal parts trying to understand how this is going to shake up the nature of competition between nations and trying to figure out how to exploit this technology.

Dunno how many of them are thinking "let's release this for EVERYONE"

Including our adversaries, many of whom are technologically behind us

>>asdff+(OP)
Prefer the government to force companies like Google to give their data to competitors rather than the government assemble data itself (unless it's at their fingertips already for whatever reason).

What you're proposing won't level the playing field much because Google will still have way more data.

>>asdff+(OP)
On a recent podcast Sam said they asked the government if they wanted to fund OpenAI. They said no.