206. On Congressional Hearings On Artificial Intelligence (May 2023)

Follow the science…fiction?

In the AI hearings a panelist suggested the best approach to regulation would be to regulate based on compute or model size. This seems to be the most a-technical and short-sighted way to regulate. 1/8

2/ imagine it is the early 1970s and fear of “databanks” (SQL) sweeps across the industrialized world. In 1980 disk drives held 30MB. Imagine the downstre…