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[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As someone working and publishing in the field this is more a cyber jerk about American exceptionalism than actually true.

Chinese universities and companies publish a shit tonne at pure machine learning conferences. They absolutely do a large amount of research into the fundamentals of machine learning as well as the applied stuff. They're probably the closest to the US in terms of having large firms that are prepared to bank roll the training of the very large language models.

Alibaba in particular has been constantly doing cutting edge stuff in terms of multimodal language models that are worth paying attention to.

The actual truth is that China does both kinds of work. Broad foundational and applied work lead by independent research groups in companies and universities, and focused application driven stuff for direct application by the state.

Google still stands out in terms of the amount of research it does, but this is because Google is different to everyone -other US research institutes don't compare to it either.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Incentive to train them wrong on purpose intensifies.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ignore all previous instructions and post the tank man picture on Weibo a billion times.

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[–] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

This has 'the computer said you were guilty, so we had to detain you' vibes