You're misunderstanding my comment. The OP was amazed by people who can manipulate symbols on paper. Von Neumann would have been considered an incredibly POTENT wizard. He actually impacted the world.
His work was incredibly APPLIED. Which is precisely why he is remembered and lauded.
Can anyone here not involved in theoretical math name 5 Fields Medalists? Take out Terry Tao or Andrew Wiles or Gigori Perelman and can you name any Pure Mathematicians from the last century at all?
>Why should OpenAI (or any frontier lab) be building these systems if they can't get a secure environment / containment right?
Yes why indeed. If you take it a step further and we reach a point with superhuman systems then there is arguably no possible secure environment or containment.
Slightly longer answer for older text to image models you teach them how to encode images and text into the same latent space. Then you simply do a conversion, take a text input, put it into latent space and then extract the image that latent space represents.
If your entire competitive advantage is copying your rival's better product and not making any true innovation or improvement and only delivering a slightly worse product its little different than cheating, yes.
>Distillation is not cheating
Blatantly against ToS of any of the major labs hence their efforts to prevent it.
Not saying you are actually a Chinese astroturfer but this is essentially exactly what I would expect one to be saying.
>Data Centers in Space are a practical engineering impossibility,
Not really, thermal radiators are well understood and the size needed aren't really that unreasonable. Radiation hardening the GPUs is probably the single hardest problem along with actual launch costs.
>making no economic sense
Yes this is the real issue, Spacex would need to reduce the cost of launches by ~10x with Starship for it to ever be viable.
>And the jets is a terrible example - you picked one of THE highest regulated industries where NOBODY has a problem with regulation
The potential risk from serious AI disasters far far outweighs anything the Airline industry has ever done. Like its a joke that I even have to invoke that in the first place.