Don’t know much about how distillation works so please enlighten me here.
> what are large language models but the distillation of all of the knowledge on the open Internet, scraped by the frontier labs and distilled into the models
If it’s as easy as that why do they choose to distill another model and not distill the knowledge on the open Internet from scratch?
Actually Brave New World was a utopia, not dystopia. Many confuse it with 1984.
Every need of the common people was met and their happiness was catered for. And those who were unusually independent, intellectually curious, creative or couldn’t fit in were “exiled”, to a place with their equals, where their were free to continue their studies, art, etc.
Imagine a world where the MAGAs are happy and content instead of angry.
The US spent decades transferring manufacturing, capital, and know-how to China, while Chinese students trained, and excelled, at elite Western universities. Why are people surprised that China eventually became capable of competing with the US?
> Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project
No. They had nothing to do with the code. The project is not only the code.
> and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?
This assumes that the difficult part is typing code, but in reality the most difficult part is to know what to build, specify it, evaluate and iterate on it.
If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily.