I doubt you've ever worked with people if you think that's unusable slow

The computer doesn't ask for annoying things like a paycheck or benefits either.

Money upfront and a small salary in the form of electricity bills.

My Windows computer is always demanding updates and reboots. And when it goes to sleep it sometimes doesn't wake up. It's quite annoying.

Meh, universal healthcare for PC's can easily be avoided by denying maintenance until they die and a new crop is purchased. At least at scale. For any individual user the friction of switching hardware may still incentivize some minimal checkups, i.e., keep windows update & defender services running and let them reboot the system no more than once every two two months.

Figure the local router port-forwarding will protect against the most obvious threats and otherwise hope your personal BS filter doesn't trojan in some ransomware. If it does & it's a person pc then wipe (more likely buy) a new machine, lose some stuff, and move on. If it's a corporate pc, CYA & get your resume together.

As my own CYA: These are not my own recommended best practices and I don't advocate them to anyone else as either computer, legal, or financial advice.

True enough. I wonder how many poems (or whatever) per hour Hallmark expects of its human workers to be close to production-ready pending editorial review?

Is 10 reasonable, with maybe 1 or 2 truly viable after further review? That would be roughly 5 mid-range laptops of my type churning them out for 8 hours a day. Maybe 2 if they're run 24/7. Forget about min/maxing price & efficiency & scaling, that's something an IT major-- not even Comp-Sci focused-- could setup right now fresh out of their graduation ceremony with a fairly small mixture of curiosity, ambition, and google (well, now, maybe Bing) searching.

There are countless boutique & small business marketing firms catering to local businesses that could have their "IT Person" spend a few days duct taping something together that could spit out enough material to winnow wheat from chaff to produce something better-- in the same period of time-- than human or AI could produce alone.

I have a focus in a comp-ling background (truly ancient by today's standards especially) enough that I see the best min/max of resources as being equivalent to-- in the the translation world-- as "computer-aided human translation" as a best practice. Much better than an average human alone, and far cheaper than the best possible that can be provided by a small dozens of humans.

You are overlooking my main point, which that while it is unusably slow now, what I’m doing wasn’t possible little more than a month or two ago.

The speed of improvement is rapid. Whether or not the COTS world eventually embraces a corporate backed version(s) or open source is somewhat besides the point when considering the impact that open source is already having.

Put aside thoughts of financing or startups or VC or moats or any of that and simply look at that rate of advancement that has occurred once countless curious tinkerers and experts and all sorts of people are working towards.

That is what amazes me. I’m torn about the risk/reward aspect of things but I think the genie is out of the bottle on that, so I’m left watching the hurricane blow through, and it’s off the cat-5 scale.

> I can't think of a single workload where that is usable.

It's not intended to be usable for production workloads. This enables people to experiment with things on the hardware they have without spending more money.

> That said once consumer GPUs are involved it does become usable

You can pick up an RTX 3090 with 24GB of VRAM right now if you want, but it's going to cost you. You can also spin up GPU instances with larger VRAM from any number of providers. This is more about having options for people who want to experiment.