Prima facie, the StarGate Project ($500B in private funding to boost AI Infrastructure in the US, with OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle, Softbank and others being key players) seems great...
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Doing this while defunding the NIH is absolutely diabolical. Boosting AI infrastructure is going to need domain experts to consult, especially in ethical minefields like anything medical/health related.
HOWEVER - a significant portion of this must be public infrastructure, meaning freelance developers and university research teams working on cutting-edge and hopefully open models should be able to access and use this infrastructure.
Only then does it help humanity. Otherwise, this once again acts as a gatekeeping measure and concentration of power. I spoke a little bit more on this after the Public AI event by Aspen Digital at the Library of Congress last year (read their excellent whitepaper at https://publicai.network/).
A key finding was that compute bottlenecks create perverse incentives and harm everyone else who is not working on nebulously defined "AGI" in trillion dollar companies. It specifically harms researchers who are doing use case specific research, like language generators for speech impaired people.
Ethical resource distribution is more important than ever in the fact of private funding conglomeration, and it is so important to keep AI open and accessible.
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