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What incentives does OpenAI have to make sure the AI actually works well with Norwegian beyond capturing a (small) Norwegian market? What incentives do they hav
by a2128 4mo ago
What incentives does OpenAI have to make sure the AI actually works well with Norwegian beyond capturing a (small) Norwegian market? What incentives do they have to take Norwegian values into consideration, or to preserve Norwegian culture into the future? The matter is also a question of national sovereignty, so to simply release the data and nicely ask foreign companies to solve the problem for you, would be a fool's move
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4mo agoIt's also a bit funny because Norway definitely has enough money to hire a team of Anthropic's best to go out there and train them a model that does whatever they want. They probably have enough money to fund their own Anthropic competitor.
- joe_mamba 4mo ago>They probably have enough money to fund their own Anthropic competitor. Which is bizarre to me Norway doesn't have a booming tech sector with all hat wealth fund acting as the biggest VC. They instead use their wealth fund to invest in US's tech sector. Baffling.
- schubidubiduba 4mo agoThere's only so much you can do with 5 million people. Especially in a field where network effects amd scale matter a lot.
- joe_mamba 4mo agoFinland has same population as Norway, has way less money, but has 3x the scaleups. Even bigger difference with vs Netherlands. Even Norway themselves admit they're the underperformers of the Nordics. https://skywlkr.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/TechScaleupNorway_2018Report.pdf https://skywlkr.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/TechScaleupNor... So blaming population is a cheap excuse that doesn't hold water. Especially that you can always import the skilled people you lack, when you have virtually unlimited money and some of the highest standards of living in the world.
- kalli 4mo agoThe point of the fund is to invest outside of Norway so as to avoid the Norwegian economy overheating and increasing inflation
- NorwegianDude 4mo agoConsidering the fact that the US is complaining about Norway putting too much money into the US market, imagine what would happen if all that money was spent in Norway. It would be chaos.
- joe_mamba 4mo ago> imagine what would happen if all that money was spent in Norway. It would create jobs, sovereignty, intellectual property and soft power? Instead it goes to strengthening the tech monopoly of a country that threatens to invade your neighbour.
- varjag 4mo agoIt was tried in early 1980s and nearly drove any non oil-related industry in the country extinct. Norway has a manpower bottleneck. The UK had spent its oil windfall domestically and it barely registered. But for a nation of then some 4 million the economy melts down with so much monetary mass.
- fastasucan 4mo agoThe fund is specifically mandated to not invest inside Norway to avoid making an enormous bubble and sky high inflation.
- schubidubiduba 4mo agoI highly doubt that hiring people who don't even speak the language would result in a better model for Norwegian. If anything, they could pay Anthropic for some tips and tricks for training. But that does not seem necessary as Deepseek & co detail everything for free