GPT-4 is genuinely useful for some stuff (summarizing documents, giving hints how to solve things in languages I do not speak, etc.) Meta and others have relea

GPT-4 is genuinely useful for some stuff (summarizing documents, giving hints how to solve things in languages I do not speak, etc.) Meta and others have released open weights with the claim that they compare to GPT-4; I imagine these are good enough for many of the similar tasks. There are bound to be at least a few more improvements in open weights before bust. Apple is already building laptops with a mind towards local AI. As NVidia's and AMD's et al AI chips drop in price, they will be included in regular desktops and laptops. While local-AI becomes more practical, the prices on remote-AI will go up, further driving local-AI improvements. Perhaps at some point will will have a subscription based weights service, where you get updated proprietary weights for your local model for $X/yr. Local-AI will be fine for Microsoft. And for Google. So, I don't think AI is going to disappear; If anything, it will become more ubiquitous. Weights may start being released less frequently and the SaaS model may go, but that would likely be a net gain.