Everyone should read "Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development" by David Harvey. Written 25 years ago, it accurately predicts the data center trend - geography usurped by capatalistic growth.
LOL - agreed. I was a bit shocked by the title being the type that gets bonded with my devices. I still use my Windows laptop from 2017 and my M1 Macbook Pro from 2021 daily. Additionally, my Kindles are from 2010.
"The US wants China to stop distilling its AI models, stop smuggling its chips, and stop fine-tuning its open-source models for military use."
Sure - you tell'em USA!...as if China is going to stop.
Right! And what it 'really' is will push the philosophical 'hard problem' of consciousness. Will we be able to penetrate something human-like to know if it is conscious?
A reasonably precise although not universal definition could be to take the data points from the study in relation to the use of those terms in the study.
I think the main idea though is that there is some structure in the memory that resembles a structure in the real world to some meaningful degree. One aspect of this is composition, the other is how closely it maps to the real world.
If it were literally just a lookup table where the indices did not correspond to physical proximity then it would definitely not be valid to say that this was really a world model in that context.
