Comment by avereveard
7 days ago
I think if we zoom out of the tech and into a bit more of economic the risk I see is that the incumbent hold a lot of advantages and also control the means of production due secondary factors like gpu scarcity.
If we want to draw some parallel this may trigger a robber baron kind of outcome more than an industrial revolution.
The existence of workable open weight models tips me more toward the optimistic outcome
Butthere's trillions at stake now and that must not be discounted it's the kind of wealth accumulation that can easily trigger a war. (And if you thinkit isn't you can look at the oil wars in the 90s and other more recent resources war bring fought in Europe today.
Expect "gpu gap" talks sooner that later, and notice there's a few global power with no horse to race.
The CPU-gap and GPU-gap talks started in 02015 and never ended before the rise of strategic AI: https://www.pcworld.com/article/426879/us-blocks-intel-from-...