That could/should be required by law. As well as advertising the recording status. Then we can have app or OS level feature to avoid these things.

Ban them. Assuming that people installed such brain chip voluntarily I do not see an issue.

Teams are more than welcome to use a non-LLM approach (or hybrid) if they consider that to be more suitable.

Not at all. They are mini games.

The cards are also coming... Some of the very first are already out - but it will take a couple of years before they hit their stride in full. And cards will likely be primarily for Chinese companies initially, and then go for exports later. So it will go under the radar for many western techies for a while. Seeing what China has managed with PCB production, low to mid-end semiconductors, phone manufacturing and electric I would hesitate to bet against them.

Nvidia is now lobbying to remove the export ban, to try to reduce the incentives for developing their own high-end LLM training/serving (and cash in on current demand).

Nvidia will fail in that respect. Sanctions and restrictions are too popular with the American government. Where the United States will lose, is that almost every country in the world that can will use other solutions not from the United States.

And unfortunately, we are losing credibility on all fronts in the last year and a half. I wonder why?

Even in a fine tuning scenario, the preferred form for making modifications is the weights plus the training pipelines, including evaluation protocols, tooling, etc.

Not comparable today. But in 10 or 20 years the situation might be considerably different. Hopefully closer to a everyone-can-build-using-hardware-they-already-have.

Does anyone have a good article on the topic? This one seems rather LLM generated. Not sure the specifics can be trusted... Overall thesis is maybe right, but would like to understand this in a bit more detail.

Linked from the article:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/big-tech-...

Capability per GB and per watt has also been going up lot. This will continue in the future as well (not necessary as the same rate as last years). But enough that I think Opus 4.8 level is reachable on consumer PCs within 10 years from its release. Say at the price point of 2000 USD in 2025 dollars.

Yeah China has a huge (and growing) advantage in power generation. And they have been looking to break into high-end chip manufacturing. The latter has high cost of entry and needs large scale to become viable. AI inference on own hardware would allow them to bootstrap the chip demand. Both for memory and accelerators.