Jack Clark: evaluation

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…But will they? And what should they do? I think they have a chance of it. We have a memorandum of understanding with the UK government, which we signed, which is about trying to see if we can find ways this can be helpful. I think the onus is really on governments to figure out where they’re willing to take big swings. The UK has digitized huge amounts of its data. It also has gov.uk, which is, similar almost to Estonia, a highly digitized front end to many different UK government services. That’s the kind of thing where surely AI can be used to make a difference, so try and use. Also, if you have a load of post-industrial areas where you provision loads of power that is no longer being used, try to see if you can allocate that for compute. I think thinking about the economics of this is important. I feel like the economics of inference are going to become important. There might be something we want to think about on taxing inference differently according to where it happens, but it could present an opportunity as well. Will it be cost-effective for Singapore to build its own quality AI systems? Because they have money, but they’re small, right?…

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