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Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics by seydor on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:00AM (#35152573)
Another way to put it is : current crop "AI companies" don't really have a moat. Transformers have existed for many years, and a bit of RL on top of it is not enough to get ahead. It's all about who has the most money to spend training larger and larger, but what happens when they all run out of money for that? LLMs will become cheaper than web hosting
Re:Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics by webmaven on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:31PM (#35160033)
That's overstating things.

Web hosting will always be less demanding, unless something weird happens and GPU/APU/TPU type hardware (along with HBM and related ancillaries) somehow becomes less expensive than (or subsumes) general purpose CPUs and RAM.