The bill basically makes software liable as all software will be AI. Whether that’s a good idea or not, this legislation makes no sense at a state level. It just pushes the modern economy out of CA.
People who fine tune models, the best way to make models for verticals, won’t make them available in CA. All the best software will no longer be in CA.
Newsom should veto it and if he still wants to see it happen advocate for it at the Federal level.
As I understand it there are already maybe 10 countries that could potentially create these $100,000,000 models and maybe 10 companies/organisations worldwide…
Every 18 months these models will half in cost due to Moore’s Law. This $100,000,000 is a moving target
There are restrictions on talent but also models are seemingly being optimised way faster then Moore’s Law. 4o mini is 30 times cheaper to run than 4o right? 15% faster after 2 months or something… Coded interfaces are many thousands of times more useful/dangerous than ChatGPT’s general interface. Datasets integrated more complex. So ‘smartness’ / ‘cost’ now, how they are used now, really doesn’t reflect what end users can do with them as time passes.
Do you know how SB-1047 compares and works with other frameworks in the EU/China/Russia/Japan/South Korea etc? Where/if they are already setup.
What I (maybe foolishly) didn’t believe 20 years ago when I first thought about some of these issues would be right now there would be so much conflict in the world.
Clearly AI has the potential to be as or more dangerous than Nuclear weapons in time. Whatever frameworks countries put together what doesn’t benefit anyone is a race to the bottom.
$10 million fine tune will do it. That’s not much of a lift.
Basically the bill is an excuse to make sotware liable.
Eg, if an attacker uses a computer today to do a hack on the SSN database, the computer maker is not liable. But now add a layer of AI that improves things for the hacker by 1% and the AI maker is now liable.
As it’s very likely all software will have a layer of AI in the near future, this defacto makes software liable.
The bill btw is basically an attempt at regulatory capture by Anthropic. It’s fortunate all of the other companies are pushing back.