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The professors at the summer seminar at the Simons Insitute complained/explained (with Ilya himself present) that this research was impossible to do in university lab setting, because of the scale needed.

So I would say ChatGPT exists because its creators specifically transgressed the traditional division of universities vs industry. The fact that this transgressive structure is unstable is not surprising, at least in retrospect.

Indeed, the only other approach I can think of is a massive government project. But again with gov't bureaucracy, a researcher would be limited by legal issues of big data vs copyright, etc.--which many have pointed out that OpenAI again was able to circumvent when they basically used the entire Internet and all of humanity's books, etc., as their training source.

>>calf+(OP)
Kind of feels like "bureaucracy actually working as intended."

I think it at least remains to be seen as to whether "rampant copyright infringement" is necessarily a good thing here.