Would it stifle the opensource development and new AI startups and only benefit the established big tech companies? It’s kinda vague and I couldn’t understand in my first read but does the executive order lacks teeth? That is if the guideline is not followed closely can government do anything to opensource community or new startups?
limk to one of articles (no paywall) : https://www.reuters.com/technology/white-house-unveils-wide-ranging-action-mitigate-ai-risks-2023-10-30/
The compute limit is 10^26 operations. For reference, NVIDIA trained GPT-3 on ~3500 H100s in just under 11 minutes which, assuming FP8 which is the highest op count, comes out to ~10^22 operations. With the same setup, they’d have to train for over 81 days to reach the 10^26 limit so it’s likely not going to impact anyone except for those training incredibly large models.
Edit: MLPerf link
That’s just the initial set of conditions for reporting requirements; the EO instructs the Secretary of Commerce to come up with new technical conditions for reporting that will supersede those.
See section 4.2 (b): https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/
Yet. Limiting this on todays compute power and requirements seems short sighted