Consider the kind of computer you could have to run a ML model where the energy use from your intermittent usage resulted in a $1k/month energy bill.
You could easily run a model orders of magnitude larger than current ones within that envelope under reasonable assumptions about your duty cycle.
Re:The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
by politician on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:02AM
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If that happens, then you'll be receiving the censored version available to folks at the $1000/mo price point. For subscriptions at the $10k/mo price point, a less censored version, and onward.
There is no reason not to practice customer segmentation in this scenario.
These tools are very effective, and giving access to lay people lets them use them to do things like say racist things and have silly arguments and answer puzzles wrongly and then go online and say the machine is broken and it shouldn't be released, and that it should be banned, etc.
Essentially, the better world for the disbelievers is that the tool is not available to them. The best world for the believers is that they have access to the tool. These are compatible.