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Sherry | 5 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +8 
 unpopular take
It will take at least 10 years for China to catch up to US at AI but no matter how bad China is, it is still far more better than Japan and EU
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Layerjack (Onion Knight) | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What is AI in this context?
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Sherry | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Llm . But AI in general makes sense too
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Layerjack (Onion Knight) | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Easy to make an autoregressive LLM for Chinese. May take a month for training
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Outside of factory/industry, where the Germans are quite far along, I agree.
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Alan Siefert | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Are they really that far behind? Got a source on their having trouble catching up?
https://amp-scmp-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3265845/alibaba-says-new-ai-model-qwen2-bests-metas-llama-3-tasks-maths-and-coding?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1&cap=swipe
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Hector Escobedo | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Unless of course, some Chinese companies happen to "borrow" the research and/or trained weights of the leading models
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captjack | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 context depends on hardware or software then usage n energy consumption - AI is not product to ship except of the HW