If the world’s governments decided tomorrow that RL was top-secret military technology (similar to nuclear weapons tech, for example), how much time would that buy us, if any? (Feel free to pick a different gateway technology for AGI, RL just seems like the most salient descriptor).
Interesting question. As far as what government could do to slow down progress towards AGI, I’d also include access to high-end compute. Lots of RL is knowledge that’s passed through papers or equations, and it can be hard to contain that kind of stuff. But shutting down physical compute servers seems easier.
Depends whether they considered it a national security issue to win the arms race, and if they did how able they would be to absorb and keep the research teams working effectively.
If the world’s governments decided tomorrow that RL was top-secret military technology (similar to nuclear weapons tech, for example), how much time would that buy us, if any? (Feel free to pick a different gateway technology for AGI, RL just seems like the most salient descriptor).
Interesting question. As far as what government could do to slow down progress towards AGI, I’d also include access to high-end compute. Lots of RL is knowledge that’s passed through papers or equations, and it can be hard to contain that kind of stuff. But shutting down physical compute servers seems easier.
Depends whether they considered it a national security issue to win the arms race, and if they did how able they would be to absorb and keep the research teams working effectively.