AI, An Intelligent Con (Part Five) - Fable 5 Is a Fable, Mythos 5 Is a Myth
The most advanced models are useless for over 99% of use cases. Open-source models are more than enough.
The Trump administration has issued an export ban on Anthropic’s two most advanced models — Fable 5 (the safety-bridled, guardrail-laden public version of Mythos 5) and Mythos 5 itself — barring all foreign nationals from access, including those on US soil. The catch: one of Anthropic’s chief scientists, Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI co-founder, Tesla alumnus, and the man responsible for pre-training — the single most critical phase in model development) is not an American citizen and can no longer, in theory, work on the very models he helps build.
Doesn’t this ring a bell? Remember Apple’s PowerPC M4 chip in 1999, or PGP encryption in 1991 — both banned from export on grounds of national security that were, to put it plainly, idiotic? Donald Trump’s decision — in which Andy Jassy, Amazon’s CEO and one of Anthropic’s principal shareholders, whose company counts Anthropic as its biggest AWS AI client, representing 80% of its backlog, is said to have played a significant role — will have catastrophic consequences that will accelerate the implosion of the bubble. China is rubbing its hands together, as we reported as early as January 2025.
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Faced with the export ban targeting Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Anthropic's latest flagship models, a holy terror has seized France's political and media class, which promptly broke into its customary chorus: sovereignty — European sovereignty, naturally, a phrase that means approximately nothing —, the geopoliticisation of AI, technological warfare. Given the depth of knowledge and understanding these people actually bring to the subject, we might as well be taking tech policy advice from the Simpsons' Mayor Quimby
The tech-brained simpletons, meanwhile, are rolling on the floor, weeping and tearing their hair out — already traumatised by Apple's suspension of Siri in Europe, without which they cannot figure out how to order their sushi and their artisanal sourdough.
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