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Preview: Colleague Rachel Lomaasky, Chief Data Scientist at Flux, comments on the beyond English spread of AI large language models and the geopolitical reception in other sovereign states. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

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Preview: Colleague Rachel Lomaasky, Chief Data Scientist at Flux, comments on the beyond English spread of AI large language models and the geopolitical reception in other sovereign states. More later.DECEMBER 1961

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This is John Batch, a conversation with colleague Rachel Lomasky,

0:40.5

a data scientist at Flux, a startup company, working on responsible AI.

0:45.3

And Rachel answers the question, has the AI moved beyond English?

0:51.7

Yes, indeed, she gives a list, including the countries that you might presume were going to be worried about an open AI access for anyone and answering questions

0:59.4

that are uncomfortable. However, not yet. Some minor restrictions on what you can use it for. Learning

1:08.8

AI, early days. Rachel Lamaski.

1:12.6

Yeah, for sure.

1:14.2

So a bunch of different levels.

1:16.0

First of all, there are some governments that are creating open models.

1:20.5

The French have an institute working on it.

1:22.8

German, our own National Science Foundation, has a multi-agency institute working on it in conjunction with private enterprise.

1:35.3

The UAE has really an open model and others as well. And as you noted earlier, some of these are with the intention of working on non-English areas, places where the modeling is less strong, obviously not coming out of Silicon Valley.

1:53.0

But I'd say none of these are actually restricting the model usage just to their citizens.

1:58.0

Another thing with these open models is that some of them have license restrictions on what you are allowed to use them for.

2:06.8

Most of them are relatively open, but there certainly are cases where you can't use them for large commercial uses and other things.

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