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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.world/users/Mer__edith/statuses/111443004371891467">Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 22:03:35 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith" title="mer__edith@mastodon.world"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/84686-48-20230104015400.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Meredith Whittaker" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Meredith Whittaker</a></section><article><p>If I wanted court drama I'd read Stendhal, who understood how power works and spent hundreds of pages illuminating characters whose desire for it blinded them to this reality.   </p><p>Or, it was Microsoft all along...</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2354891#notice-4648303">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-11-20T22:03:35+09:00" title="Monday, 20-Nov-2023 22:03:35 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111443004371891467" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.world via ActivityPub">mastodon.world</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111443004371891467">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1857994">What is clear here is what's been clear since the relationship between Open AI and Microsoft was announced, and even before then. In an ecosystem where only a handful of the largest tech companies have access to the extraordinarily expensive "hyperscale" compute capacity required to develop and use large-scale AI systems, any startup looking to “succeed” in the AI space will, at some point, be required to latch on to one of these large firms. What we’re watching is that fact revealed clearly. It's Microsoft--the infrastructure and deployment provider--who actually has the power here. The fact that the Open AI board didn't seem to realize this is surprising, but doesn't distract from this basic political economic fact.</a></label><br><a href="https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/111/443/003/605/491/873/original/d411da16562894ea.png" rel="external">https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/111/443/003/605/491/873/original/d411da16562894ea.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 22:03:35 JST Meredith Whittaker
If I wanted court drama I'd read Stendhal, who understood how power works and spent hundreds of pages illuminating characters whose desire for it blinded them to this reality.
Or, it was Microsoft all along...
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1. What is clear here is what's been clear since the relationship between Open AI and Microsoft was announced, and even before then. In an ecosystem where only a handful of the largest tech companies have access to the extraordinarily expensive "hyperscale" compute capacity required to develop and use large-scale AI systems, any startup looking to “succeed” in the AI space will, at some point, be required to latch on to one of these large firms. What we’re watching is that fact revealed clearly. It's Microsoft--the infrastructure and deployment provider--who actually has the power here. The fact that the Open AI board didn't seem to realize this is surprising, but doesn't distract from this basic political economic fact.
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