Posts tagged #Sovereignty
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A journey inside the machine that answers: how the bytes move in inference
What happens, physically, when a language model answers, and what changes if the one answering is a single machine, at home? A path through the principles of how it works, from attention to the craft of inference, with its two phases, its organization of the data, the techniques that make it cost less, read along one thread: where the bytes are and how much it costs to move them. In the background, an idea: local inference, as a choice and as a possibility, already matters today and will matter more and more. Keeping it concrete, an engine written in C that brings a model of hundreds of billions of parameters to run locally: DwarfStar, with which antirez shows how far one can push, and that this road can be travelled.
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Is a ban, in the world of AI, inevitable?
«Is a ban in AI inevitable?» is the wrong question: not because the answer is no, but because it hides the only ones that matter, which ban, decided by whom and at what cost, including the cost few put on the books. Really, "the people are minors"?
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Caution in the wrong place
Governing AI focused only on following the rules can make a company cautious where the risk is small and careless where it is large; worrying about being compliant does not necessarily mean deciding with awareness
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…it may not exist or you may not have access to it…
Reflections on the importance of technological independence for individual states, individual organizations and, why not, individual people