Ok, to be very honest I wrote that in the middle of having a couple of drinks. I guess, what I mean is, countries are funding AI labs because it can turn into a “winner-takes-it-all” competition. Unless the country starts blocking the leading providers.

Private companies will turn towards the best, fastest, cheapest (or some average of them). Country borders don’t really matter. All labs are fighting to get the best thing out in the public for that reason, because winning comes with money, status, prestige, and actually changing the world. This kind of incentives are rare.

> countries are funding AI labs because it can turn into a “winner-takes-it-all” competition.

Winner takes what exactly? They can rip off react apps quicker than everyone else? How terrifying.

Like I understand this commentary, but it’s so detached from reality. My dad in his 70s is writing Excel macros, even though he never touched that in his life. There are a ton of cases like this, but people can’t see reality out of their domains.

That’s so dope excel finally let old people learn this! They removed the agelock?!

Come on man, you know exactly what I mean. You can keep coming up with these arguments, but the world has moved on already. I genuinely don’t know a single person in 3 different countries from age 12+ who does not use LLMs at least once a week. We have to adapt, or choose to not play the “game”.

Your counter to "excel was never hard to learn" is "people use LLMs all day long" ??

I uh, think the LLM use has compromised your critical thinking skills.

What does this even mean? Are you disputing the fact that AI labs are competing with each other because they are funded by nation-states?

Why do you have to compete if you can just say "but China!" And get billions more dollars from the government

He's disputing the idea that nationally funded business initiatives are competitive.