We've all seen the proposed pricing for GPT4. So clearly a whole lot of very smart people who know an awful lot about this have absolutely no fear of being undercut.
Pandora's box spews knowledge onto the world. By contrast, Microsoft's draw bridge only allows the very wealthy to cross into the walled city. The masses will have to use the facilities of the crappy villages with no draw bridge.
"AI Divide"
Get used to hearing that term. The only difference between the AI Divide and the Digital Divide is that this time around, most of us are going to be on the wrong side of it.
Doubt. Superintelligence is one thing, but AI as workers is limited to the cost of human workers. Exceedingly unlikely that the cost will stay there and not come down.