Kind of yeah. There’s a whole conversation about how the Chinese government was at one point hamstringing all Chinese AI development by trying to punish researchers (with for-real, Chinese-prison punishment) if their models ever say anything politically suspect. I don’t know if that’s still going on, but past and present it is asinine and counterproductive to a degree that’s honestly a little hard to believe. At the same time, China’s command economy has the ability to muster resources towards a priority like AI development in a way that simply doesn’t happen in the West, so I could easily believe that there are good things coming out that people here are unaware of. So it’d be good to learn about these things; I wish this article was reporting some of the substance of them so we could.
Kind of yeah. There’s a whole conversation about how the Chinese government was at one point hamstringing all Chinese AI development by trying to punish researchers (with for-real, Chinese-prison punishment) if their models ever say anything politically suspect. I don’t know if that’s still going on, but past and present it is asinine and counterproductive to a degree that’s honestly a little hard to believe. At the same time, China’s command economy has the ability to muster resources towards a priority like AI development in a way that simply doesn’t happen in the West, so I could easily believe that there are good things coming out that people here are unaware of. So it’d be good to learn about these things; I wish this article was reporting some of the substance of them so we could.