Comment by indigoabstract
2 years ago
ChatGPT is, of course, a great piece of software, but the huge hype is probably what it will be best remembered for. Also, since currently, AI is the exclusive playground of big corporations, to me it's a bit puzzling how some people can get so excited (and maintain that excitement) over something that they cannot control and have little hope of building it by themselves. I guess some are just more in love with technology, than with other things in life. Because, as everyone is probably well aware by now, more technology is the solution to every problem that ever faced mankind and will finally fix everything. :)
I assume that there will be an open and freely available model as large as ChatGPT within a year or so. Training costs are prohibitive but what about NSF grants?
I don't know about the NSF, or when will governments get in on AI, but you're probably right, the technology will become open source in a while, as it has happened in the past.
It looks much less likely for the cost of developing and training an AI system to come down for the time being, making it out of reach for most individuals.
When the PC revolution was happening, everyone interested had a good chance of getting in, they just needed some money to buy/rent a computer and learn to use it or program it.
Compared to that, the AI revolution doesn't seem to have the same quality.
The barrier to entry seems much much higher this time.
I do think that governments will have an interest in keeping around models that they're in control of, just like there is publicly funded boradcasting, you may want to be able to control all the biases of a widely-used model and not just import it from somewhere.