I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 282: Stuck in the Neck (First Update)
The cost of training once is nearly 100 million yuan, but it is not a problem for all the Internet giants present.

Even for Apple, which has not invested much in the field of AI, its annual R&D investment in the field of AI has been more than 5 million U.S. dollars in the lowest year since three years ago, and last year's investment exceeded 11 billion.

Google, which has invested the most, has conservatively estimated that its R&D expenditure in the field of AI has exceeded 20 billion U.S. dollars each year in the past three years, and last year it reached 32 billion U.S. dollars.

This is just R&D funding, not operating costs.

Google spent more than 500 million dollars just to acquire DeepMind two years ago, and the financial support it provided to DeepMind afterwards was countless.

And now, almost all of these investments have gone down the drain.

Because the first usable AGI has actually been born.

The AI ​​industry is a winner-takes-all industry.

Of course, the winner does not refer to the company, but to the technology.

Just because a company develops the technology that can achieve AGI does not mean that the company can take over all the AGI business in the world.

Faced with this technology that can change the world, no country will be obsessed with patent laws and intellectual property rights.

There may be more than one path to achieve AGI, perhaps countless paths, but as long as someone succeeds in one, all researchers and large companies that are currently taking other paths will quickly turn to the path of AGI that has already been achieved.

With an upper limit on resource investment, AI evolves in months or even days. If you are one year late, it may mean that the performance gap between you and your competitors will be an order of magnitude.

An order of magnitude that is enough to fail in any market competition.

In the business world, there is no such thing as willingness or unwillingness. Any similar breakthrough made by any company will be followed by other large companies.

But using your technology does not mean that you, the original creator, will be able to come in and share a piece of the pie.

Therefore, neither Google nor Facebook wants a disruptor like YouZi Technology to appear in the Malaysian market.

As for the officials of Maiguo, they also do not want Youzi Technology to appear in Maiguo. No, it should be said that they do not want it to appear in markets outside of Dazhou.

The only question is, if Yuzu Technology is banned, will it be strangled in the opposite direction, eventually weakening the competitiveness of the country itself?

At this point, there is considerable disagreement among these giants.

Giants like Amazon, Google, and FB, which have no related businesses in Da Zhou and have made huge investments in the field of AI, will of course pat their chests and guarantee that after obtaining the source code of the Orange Big Model, even if they are currently lagging behind, it won't be long before they will be able to surpass Da Zhou's progress in AI again.

Miami has money, technology, the most developed science and education system in the world, and talents from all over the world. As long as they know the principles, I believe they will be able to surpass Youzi Technology in a short period of time.

The attitudes of Xiaoruan and Guoguo are much more ambiguous.

Firstly, they have deep conflicts of interest in the Great Zhou.

Secondly, they are all product-oriented companies, and AI is just a component that enables their products.

Their sense of crisis about the rise of Youzu Technology is far less sensitive than that of technology companies like Google and FB that have invested heavily in AI.

Even if Youzi Technology defeats Google and FB, so what? I can just cooperate with Youzi Technology. It’s just a matter of changing suppliers.

Therefore, their attitude is more focused on the fact that Youzi Technology should not be allowed to acquire Maiguo chip companies and related high-tech entities.

Just as the topic was getting more and more off topic, a voice that had been silent interrupted everyone's discussion.

"I only have one question. If Yuzu Technology is not allowed to enter the Maiguo market, what if, I mean what if, they finally realize ASI, in the absence of supervision, who can guarantee that the ASI they created will not destroy the world?"

"You know, in reality, AI is not restricted by the so-called three laws of robotics."

As everyone focused their attention, Elon Musk's eyes flickered with an ambiguous light.

ASI is the abbreviation of artificial super intelligence.

If Iron Man's Jarvis is AGI, then ASI is Ultron from the Avengers, Skynet from the Terminator, the Matrix, Sophon from the Trisomy, and Cortana from Halo.

"During the internal testing phase of the Orange Big Model, I did some calculations. If the Orange Big Model continues to develop at its current speed and computing power and energy are sufficient, in at most ten years, no, maybe just eight years, the number of AI parameters may exceed the number of human synapses."

“The birth of ASI is inevitable.”

“The only difference is, after the birth of ASI, will it help humans, or destroy humans, or will it first help humans and then destroy humans as it develops?”

“Even if human society will not be destroyed, what kind of changes will human society experience after the emergence of ASI?”

"If we completely exclude YuZi Technology from the Miami market, will we completely lose control of YuZi Technology's ASI progress?"

"Juzi-2.5, which will be launched the day after tomorrow, already has 3000 billion parameters. Who among you can guarantee that this is the other party's latest technology? Who knows what level the most advanced large model in their laboratory has reached?"

“If they really make ASI in a few years, how can we resist them when we have completely isolated them and have no idea about our opponents?”

"Gentlemen, you all know that I am not exaggerating. I think this is the most important issue to consider, rather than whether to exclude YuZi Technology from the Miami market." Musk's words sounded very sci-fi, but his expression was extremely serious.

After hearing Musk's words, everyone present was silent for a while.

This topic is actually a topic that all AI practitioners do not want to face.

After the birth of AGI, will ASI be born?

definitely will.

Although many people will use bottlenecks such as computing power and energy to comfort and deceive the general public who are confused.

But for these practitioners, everyone understands that once the curtain of the era is opened, these problems will be easily solved and will not be obstacles at all.

AI companies have been claiming that alignment technology can solve the security issues of artificial intelligence, but this is simply self-deception and self-consolation.

But who in this world is not deceiving themselves?
Most Western countries, apart from populist issues that can win votes, adopt the "four-level tactics" summarized in the Anglo-American drama when faced with many difficult problems.

Stage 1: We declare that nothing happened.

Stage 2: We say maybe something is going on, but no action should be taken.

Stage 3: Maybe we should take action, but nothing can be done.

Stage 4: Maybe we could have done something, but now it's too late.

Obviously, the issue of AI has nothing to do with votes at present, while the technological threat of the Great Zhou is linked to populism and is closely related to votes.

"Cough!" John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, coughed lightly.

"Mr. Musk, what we are discussing today is not the safety of AI, nor when ASI will be available."

"What we need to determine is whether Maiguo has fallen behind in this technological revolution? Is it necessary to take restrictive measures against Youzi Technology and other high-tech companies related to Dazhou? And what measures can be taken to restrict their development?"

After John Holdren finished speaking, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker added:

"The Security Committee will compile a report on the content and results of today's discussion and report it to the President. This is related to whether the relevant authority of CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment) should be expanded."

She is a member of the Pritzker family in Chicago. Hyatt Hotels Corporation is her family's business, and her family also owns several large loan sharking companies.

"At last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, several members expressed similar concerns. Your Excellency the President needs the corresponding information to determine whether it is necessary to use the President's privileges and issue a Presidential Order to temporarily ban the relevant products and technologies of Youzi Technology."

"Of course, with the election coming up, the president does not want to change existing policies easily. Therefore, the role of this meeting is not only to provide reference for the current government, but will also have an impact on the corresponding policies of the next government."

White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough made a veiled statement on behalf of President Obama: My term is about to end, so don't give me any trouble, just go and lobby Hillary.

"If that's the case, I don't think you have anything to worry about." Musk spread his hands, "If you can return your phone to me, I can show you an email now."

According to regulations, mobile phones were required to be handed in during the closed-door meeting in the Situation Room on the basement level of the West Wing of the White House, but with the permission of the meeting host, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Elon Musk was able to get his iPhone and, with the help of White House security personnel, project an email onto the big screen.

"Last weekend, Tesla expressed its intention to cooperate with Youzi Technology in the field of autonomous driving."

"The visual and intuitive systems of the beta version of the Orange Big Model can help Tesla achieve the evolution of autonomous driving from L2.5 to L3 and L4."

“Tesla hopes that Yuzu Technology can make targeted adjustments and explanations to the hyperparameters of the visual and intuitive systems in the Orange Big Model.”

"But unfortunately, the other party directly rejected our request for cooperation."

“And they have been very vocal about not doing AI business in Miami.”

"After a series of communications, we learned that although Youzi Technology does not prohibit Maiguo Enterprise from using the open source Orange Big Model, it will also not provide Maiguo Enterprise with any technical support and additional services."

"In subsequent email communications, the other party clearly expressed concerns and caution about the trend of expanding CFIUS power."

“I think it is not a wise choice to increase investment in Miami at this stage.”

"Ladies and gentlemen, men of Capitol Hill, times have changed."

"Do you think your Cold War mentality needs to change as well?"

“Maybe it’s not a question of whether we allow the other party to do business, but whether the other party opens up the latest technology to us.”

"In other words, the country is being strangled."

Musk put his ten fingers together and made a circle.

(End of this chapter)