By guest author: Nielo Wait, VRZ Champions LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielo/ YouTube: Slopfiction Caveat: These ideas were articulated with the assistance of artificial intelligence — barely legal em dashes and all. Two AIs walk into a bar. Bartender: “Sorry, we don’t serve minors.” As the western AI begins to litigate, the eastern AI forks the bartender, open-sources the quantized version, and shouts, "The next round is on me!" USA, run by lawyers, is trying to legislate its way into AI dominance. China, run by engineers, is shipping fast, hard-coding its own vision of what AI should be. Both are building futures. But the difference in approach is already warping the GenAI landscape — and who gets to shape it. That’s the frame: GenAI isn’t good or bad. It’s just barely legal . Not in the smirking, R-rated LoRa sense. In the sense that the rulebook doesn’t exist yet, the court cases are unresolved, the ethics are wea...
On 4 May, a purported leaked document from Google appeared online. The document, titled “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”, seems to be an admission that the big companies working on AI are unable to keep competing with open-source researchers. This document, and admission, created quite a stir. To understand why, we need to take a step back... Tale as Old as ... The question of whether AI research should be open source has long been a hot topic of debate in the AI community. On the one hand, proponents of open source argue that making AI research openly available to the public will encourage collaboration and innovation, ultimately leading to the development of better technologies. Open source allows for transparency and accountability. This is particularly important in areas such as healthcare, where the consequences of AI errors could be catastrophic. There are also concerns that closed AI research ...