On: Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power foreve...

[a_t48]

This would make AI usage restricted to those who can afford a beefy PC, no?

[Geee → a_t48]

Costs will come down, while capability will go up. I'm thinking of a some kind of box in every home, with special inference chips; not really a "PC".

In principle, every human should have access to the same level of AI. There could be one at the local library if someone can't afford one, or doesn't want one.

[ethanwillis → Geee]

Access to local libraries isn't even a thing that everyone has access to.

[dotnet00 → a_t48]

Or it would create an incentive for reducing the cost of the hardware needed to run beefier AI models and passing that reduction down to consumers.

[jeffparsons → dotnet00]

Which would still mean that those who can afford more/better hardware can therefore afford more/better AI. I don't think a solution lies down this path...

[dotnet00 → jeffparsons]

Is that really an issue? Eg it's the same with games, the better your hardware, the more likely you can play a new game at higher settings with better performance, with most cheaper devices outright unable to handle anything recent.

But if you wait a GPU generation or two, the performance has improved enough that you can do that with a much cheaper GPU.

[JieJie → jeffparsons]

There are already people working on distributed solutions to that problem. There are a lot of people working on these problems.

[samus → a_t48]

That would still be a way larger class of people than the top 1%. Even so, capabilities of consumer devices will rise for some more time.