There’s a long history of the top tier of computing hardware being export controlled. This is more of a recognition (a bit late eh?) of the utility of these graphics cards, though really it’s about time we started calling them something else.
Since we have Cold War II (with the hot war still not fought by NATO), we should expect similarities to Cold War I: bans on high-tech exports, classifying more stuff, even public lies in an attempt to misdirect the adversary (see [SDI]). Good thing if encryption is not declared munition as it was back then [W].
An AI arms race will be limited by the silicon it's built on. The arms race will be in the fabrication of the chips. You can only scale old nodes so far.
The cheapest solution out of all the possibilities is to just use a back channel to get them, of course.
Allowing US companies to serve people relevant ads and allowing US companies to aid our number one adversary in developing the most potentially dangerous technology humans will every create are two very different things.
They can, but don't. Applying specific restrictions and switching from small fines to business-continuity-affecting rulings would solve the issue very quickly.
Yes, but chairman Xi is stupid enough to launch an invasion even involuntarily due to military provocations (misfires) to quell unrest at home by projecting anger outside.
Not that there's anything coming up right now, but Pakistan is looking extremely fragile right now with a dead economy and an unprecedented natural disaster. That, along with a more right wing India can't be good news.
If the image generation market is getting too saturated, maybe OpenAI can sell something to the government. No one has deeper pockets.