OK this kind of reminds of CPUs. Sure with a good amount of time and effort you could fully understand every single minute facet and detail that goes into basi

OK this kind of reminds of CPUs. Sure with a good amount of time and effort you could fully understand every single minute facet and detail that goes into basic x86 CPU. You wouldn't be able to grok every single operation that happens inside when it produces some output but you can definitely understand the fundamentals and have an intuitive understanding of the internals. You the average hobbyist or programmer would be able with significant investment create a photolithography setup at home and even create one of your designs. None of this would be anywhere near the scale, performance or quality of the products coming out of big companies. You just dont have the expertise or hardware to make a product anywhere near a current gen CPU. Does that make you sad? Obviously theres a difference here in that AI is "software" but the comparison is apt I feel. It is clearly a different class of software than fun webpages and video games from the 90s. Just like the CPUs and GPUs of today are a different class of hardware than what you can build at home. Even with much education and resources, both are out of reach.