Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China

The government of Malaysia on Monday closed a back door that may have allowed the export of AI chips to China. The nation’s Ministry of Investment, Trade, and Industry on Monday made an announcement [PDF] that it now requires exporters of “high performance AI chips of US origin” to obtain a strategic trade permit before …

[NoneSuch]

You can restrict it, but China will find a way around any obstacle.

Until they discover democracy and stop suppressing the rights of their people, buy nothing that says "Made in China."

[Version 1.0]

If you buy nothing that says "Made in China." then a lot of time you just need to pay for an update to keep it working? Looking at everything politically today (I'm living in America) I see China as much nicer ... maybe as a result of my so many great visits as a European guy to China.

[retiredFool]

I think impossible

At this moment in time, it is far easier to not buy anything that says "made in usa", than it is to not buy anything that says "made in china"*. And I say that as a US citizen living in the US.

*except food

[Grunchy]

I’m not even sure LLM even qualifies as artificial intelligence. The LLM resembles A.I., but it’s unable to invent anything new, all it can do is formulate answers that resemble information it has already processed.

In that sense it’s a pretty good expert system.

I’m pretty sure that a LLM has no understanding of reality, so from its perspective everything it says or thinks is hallucination.

There will be a massive market correction when people finally figure this out!