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This would make AI usage restricted to those who can afford a beefy PC, no?
by a_t48 3y ago
This would make AI usage restricted to those who can afford a beefy PC, no?
- dotnet00 3y agoOr it would create an incentive for reducing the cost of the hardware needed to run beefier AI models and passing that reduction down to consumers.
- jeffparsons 3y agoWhich would still mean that those who can afford more/better hardware can therefore afford more/better AI. I don't think a solution lies down this path...
- JieJie 3y agoThere are already people working on distributed solutions to that problem. There are a lot of people working on these problems.
- dotnet00 3y agoIs that really an issue? Eg it's the same with games, the better your hardware, the more likely you can play a new game at higher settings with better performance, with most cheaper devices outright unable to handle anything recent. But if you wait a GPU generation or two, the performance has improved enough that you can do that with a much cheaper GPU.
- Geee 3y agoCosts will come down, while capability will go up. I'm thinking of a some kind of box in every home, with special inference chips; not really a "PC". In principle, every human should have access to the same level of AI. There could be one at the local library if someone can't afford one, or doesn't want one.
- ethanwillis 3y agoAccess to local libraries isn't even a thing that everyone has access to.
- samus 3y agoThat would still be a way larger class of people than the top 1%. Even so, capabilities of consumer devices will rise for some more time.