Is this correct? I was under the impresion that the most expensive part of an llm is the training, and once that’s done the cost of running a prompt is negligible.
I get your point that this last part doesn’t scale well, but the far larger cost of training must get very diluted if they distribute it across a large user base.
Thank you kind person, I just fixed it!
Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree These motherfuckers would scorch our planet for profit but this… feels different.
Is not a secret a lot of the most influential Billionaires are transhumanists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc).
But hey, it might as well be a grift to get on board other unsuspecting rich fucks…
Either way, we should put these power hoarding dragons to sleep, soon!
My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook all over again.
Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.
That’s my best case.
Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start surreptitiously but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the worst best Marketer would blush about.
Not sure about that.
Nuclear energy is safer than ever.
We even have small nuclear reactors that can use spent fuel from the larger ones, thus solving in part the disposal of it.
Furthermore, significant advances have been achieved on fision power.
Clinging to oil is like refusing to replace your horse with a car.
Oh… That would be swell. First we ought to remove greed from human nature.
So you are telling me that in your ideal world only people that excel in their field should be compensated?
While also telling that musicians should make music just for the pure joy of it and not for living?
Bear in mind that most stars had a lowly start, by replacing entry level jobs with AI you will likely destroy a lot of potential.
Car makers test exactly that, and for good measure since cars can and do crash!
What are you suggesting, that we buy cars that didn’t pass crash tests?
To me it seems like you arguing something similar for AI.
Yes, but don’t underestimate the power of centralisation.
6 months ago you could set up a server for running a decent local llm for under 800.
By increasing the demands and pushing the price of hardware up, they are efectibly gate keeping access to llms.
I think the plan is that we will need to rely on this companies for compute power and llms services, and then they can do all sorts of nefarious things.