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Meredith Whittaker Mar 10, 2024

Notable that this longstanding problem, which I and a few others have been naming for ~a decade, is now common sense.

It's true. AI is fundamentally a technology controlled by Big Tech. But the current 'solutions' to this problem would extend, not dilute, Big Tech control. 1/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/10/big-tech-companies-ai-research/

Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research

A growing chorus of academics say the sky-high cost of working with AI models is boxing researchers out of the field, compromising independent study of the technology.

The Washington Post

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legraLeGra

@Mer__edith @gueuledatmosphere

Not just AI researchers. But all kinds of labs need fast chips to work.

And sometimes that isn’t just swapping in GPUs for CPUs, it’s getting the code/software streamlined to work well with that hardware.

This facility is all of NASA GISS and GMAO offices climate simulation ‘power’. How will we afford getting ever higher resolution simulations with expanded physics?
https://www.nccs.nasa.gov/systems/discover/scu-info

Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research

Discover SCU Info | NASA Center for Climate Simulation