Comment by simonw
7 days ago
Sure, but that's how most of human society works already.
It's more cost effective to farm eggs from a hundred thousand chickens than it is for individuals to have chickens in their yard.
You CAN run a GPT-class model on your own machine right now, for several thousand dollars of machine... but you can get massively better results if you spend those thousands of dollars on API credits over the next five years or so.
Some people will choose to do that. I have backyard chickens, they're really fun! Most expensive eggs I've ever seen in my life.
50 years ago general computers were also time shared. Then the pendulum swing to desktop, then back to central.
I for one look forward to another 10 years of progress - or less - putting current models running on a laptop. I don’t trust any big company with my data