apply at one of the frontier labs

yeah I wish

you never know until you try, even though the odds might suck, to be fair.

okay then don't apply

I just applied. "Dear Dario, Gimme job. Kind regards, theteapot.". Fingers crossed.

I’d be happy even without having access to a billion dollar datacenter, if I could use local models properly, but even that requires some serious hardware that is out of my reach. We live in weird times: I have lots of hope for the future, but meanwhile AI access is pretty iniquitous indeed.

Sub 1% of the planet has access to cutting edge frontier AI.

Sub 1% of the planet has any practical use for the top tiers of AI systems. That will likely always be true.

The gap between the haves and have nots will drastically widen further, and very quickly. The bottom ~95-97% will be left behind in a way that will be impossible to overcome. The age of AI + robotics will just make it that much harder to climb for most people, these are systems that are in aggressive, direct competition with human labor. And in short order the AI + robots will be vastly superior to human labor (it doesn't really matter if we're speaking in terms of 10 years or 30 years).

AI will consolidate the winnings. The gigantic gains by the elite rich related to AI over the past few years, is merely a hint of what's to come. Capital will win as it always does.

There will be some gains for most everybody else, those gains will be comparatively trivial though. A house bot that saves people an hour of labor here and there, AI that automates some trivial life tasks.

I'm using Opus 5.5 and I cant help but think that I might very well be one of the few people who do so in my local area ( developing country, one of the poorest province ).

Had Opus make software for some local business and seeing it blew people's mind.

20$ aint cheap for us but I'm actually considering upgrading to the 100$ tier.

Am just jelly people are using 100-200$ subscription ^_^