[ExI] chatbots and marketing: was RE: India and the periodic table

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of efc--- via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] chatbots and marketing: was RE: India and the periodic table


On Fri, 9 Jun 2023, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:

>>... China would really really like to convert North America and Europe 
> into a food-supplying raw-materials supplying slave labor continents...

I'm not so sure. When it comes to china, there are a couple of things which always make me doubt their "power" and think that there will be dramatic changes there eventually.

1. An acquaintance moved to china many years ago to work as an architect. His general view after working there for a year was that:

1.1. Chinese are generally fairly incompetent. 
1.2. Do not have the ability to think critically or object. 
1.3. Love to cheat the system, not work at work etc....







Sure, all of that is true, however the whole notion is contingent upon China mastering the technology to create custom AIs or seizing the manufacturing capacity for making the GPUs necessary for custom AIs.

As I understand it, custom chatbots are absolutely dependent on huge calculation capacity, the kind that requires GPUs manufactured at the scale (both integration and production capacity) currently dominated by Taiwan.  China wouldn't need to necessary master AI tech, if they controlled manufacturing of GPUs, which they will if they grab Taiwan while the US government is at war with itself, as it is now.

spike