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Re:OpenAI regulatory pushing government to ban illegal advan... by Topfi on Saturday June 17, 2023 @07:37AM (#36369337)
You are absolutely right there at the moment, but the question is whether this will always remain the case. I am honestly doubtful, I am certain this will be more a question of when than if, seeing as both Nvidia and Apple continue making consumer hardware that does well in inferencing.

Add to that the fact that institutions (research institutes[0][1] or universities) are like to continue undertaking the task of training larger in size models, making the fruits of their labor freely accessible.

[0] https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b-instruct [1] https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-...

Re:OpenAI regulatory pushing government to ban illegal advan... by dkarras on Saturday June 17, 2023 @10:26AM (#36370444)
Yeah, we will find ways of training these things faster, and we will have faster hardware. We will have better, more parameter efficient models. This will inevitably be something we can do locally. You can already trade time for money. Like, right now you can buy hardware for less than what a house costs, train using the hardware for a year and you basically have something as capable as GPT3.5 - this is already possible and needs to be done only once (and you can still sell the hardware if you want) and a single dedicated person is capable of doing it by themselves. It will only get faster, and cheaper from here. Same goes for inference, still expensive to run but will get cheaper.