Friedberg: Open-source local LLMs are critical to bypass AI regulation
David Friedberg · E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023 · Dec 29, 2023 · at 58:36
Investor David Friedberg selects open-source local LLMs as the best tech of 2023, emphasizing their importance in avoiding regulatory control and maintaining offline access.
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“My best new tech of this year, I think is really important as we race to keep the promise of AI alive in the face of increasing government regulation, which is open source locally run LLMs. So you can take a, an LLM and you can run it on your machine. You don't have to be connected to the internet. You don't have to have a third party service provider making a LLM available to you. And so this Allows the continued development and pursuit of productivity gains and new capabilities that emerge from these LLMs by making them local, offline, disconnected from the internet and away from the scrutability of agencies that want to check your model and make sure it's okay.”
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