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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Thursday published a memo that accused China of conducting “industrial-scale” theft of artificial intelligence (AI) technology from American firms.
“The U.S. government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI systems,” said the memo from OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, as first seen by the Financial Times (FT) on Thursday.
“Model distillation” means harvesting the output from existing large AI systems to create smaller ones, rather like a cuckoo bird laying its eggs in the nests of other birds. As with many techniques, there are legitimate and illegitimate ways to distill.
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