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In recent news reported by Reuters, a U.S. congressional commission proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart, or even smarter, than humans. The proposition is amid the intensifying competition from China over advanced technologies.

"We've seen throughout history that countries that are first to exploit periods of rapid technological change can often cause shifts in the global balance of power. China is racing towards AGI ... It's critical that we take them extremely seriously”

Helberg, while recognizing that energy infrastructure is a significant bottleneck for training large AI models, suggests that streamlining the permitting process for data centers is one way of enabling a public-private partnership that could accelerate AI development.

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This news follows a rumor that artificial intelligence models are hitting a “wall”. Separate sources, including Reuters, The Information, and Bloomberg, have reported that companies such as OpenAI are failing in their next endeavors. Unnamed sources have claimed that OpenAI’s Orion is “so far not considered to be as big a step up from OpenAI’s existing models as GPT-4 was from GPT-3.5.”

However, OpenAI is pushing back on these rumors, stating that there is “no wall”. Despite having not reached a wall, analysts do admit that it’s possible to have reached a turning point.

“We haven’t seen a breakthrough model in a while. Part of it is that we’ve exhausted all the human data, and so just throwing more compute at the same data may not yield better results.”

Gary Marcus, NYU professor emeritus and outspoken critic of AI hype, has this to say:

“The economics are likely to be grim. LLMs will not disappear, even if improvements diminish, but the economics will likely never make sense…”

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