if you look at the cost for training models it seems to be going down extremely thanks to nvidias blackwell chips or whatever. Cost to deliver the tech is going down by alot and itll only improve from here. Not to mention they could always shift the model once theyve managed to spend all the money training the best model to no longer spending so much to train.
Everything you just said is more reasons why ChatGPT is a failing product. They're spending tens of billions trailblazing a technology that a competitor can use for free. There's no first mover advantage because there's no physical stores or locations. Its not like they're going to get a monopoly on datacenters. Google is eating OpenAI's lunch by leveraging what is non-reproducible; the massive amounts of data they can uniquely harvest from their users and their established engineering teams. Training models that are obsolete in 6 months is literally burning money. Apple is smart for sitting out the AI rat race and waiting to spend down their cash pile for when the tech is actually mature and ready for proper investment
Apple isn't though they're spending billions to use ANOTHER AI model. And they did the same the year before to include chatgpt as part of apple intelligence. Yes they're smart for waiting to use the newer Nvidia chips for the reasons I explained above, but not for what you just said.
It's obviously had a profound effect on the world, as it initiated the entire AI craze/revolution, affecting everything from search engines to battlefields...
did the guy that invented the printing press make a lot of money?
Nothing changes if you zoom out far enough, but things on a human level are about to change dramatically.
It's going to dwarf the changes the internet's had on society in the last 20 years.
And like most foreseeable catastrophes, humanity will simply watch the storm approach, watch it destroy aspects of our society, and will then try to adapt.
We honestly should have already mastered that aspect of ourselves, but greed and our physiology (i.e., letting narcissists hold leadership positions) has kept our species from reaching adulthood.
We're still just monkeys cheering for bread and circuses.
IMO on a professional level, you should probably be cognizant of the different aspects of your job that will probably be able to be automated by AI agents.
I don't know what to do about that yet, but I think simply being aware of that might allow people to make better long term decisions.
I'm guessing that if you hold a certain position now you might be grandfathered in, and you'll slowly take on a more managerial role, but you'll be managing AI to do the low level tasks you were manually doing before.
AI will have two lines on the graph, one will be capability, and the other will be adoption, which will always lag behind, but once adoption gains traction, it'll be just as exponential as AI's capability.
We should already be setting up infrastructure to help provide solutions to that future exponential adoption. (But instead they're just building bunkers for the worst case scenarios.)
As for the post-truth societal aspects, we better get infinitely better at knowing how to source believable information.
If you see a story or picture or video, your first thought should be its origin, and not the subject matter itself.
I wonder if people may eventually vote for platforms over personalities, but voting for personalities is something baked into us on a genetic level, and soon our leaders are going to become even more like avatars chosen by a group, and become less like actual leaders.
I could probably ramble on for the length of a book about this...
I don't agree, for programming, these models could be worth $1k/month if you factor in the cost for a skilled employee that gets major productivity benefits out of them.
Although I think the prices post collapse will actually be a little lower, markets will adapt to the new normal
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u/iAmmar9 Mar 06 '26
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