Comment by stingraycharles
13 hours ago
Absolutely not; the trends have proven that people will just pay for the best quality they can get, and keep paying roughly the same money.
Every time a new model is released, people abandon the old, lower quality model (even when it’s priced less), and instead prefer to pay the same for a better model.
The same will happen with this.
Sure but the money people are paying right now isn't that much in the grand scheme of things. OpenAI is expecting 13bn in revenue this year. AWS made over 100bn last year. So unless they pay a lot more, or they find customers outside of programmers, designers, etc who are willing to pay for the best quality, I don't see how it grows as fast as it needs to (I'm not saying it won't increase, just not at the rate expected by the data center providers)
For early adopters yes but many systems have been running as good enough without any kind of updates for a long time. For many use cases it needs to get to a point where accuracy is good enough and then it will be set and forget. I disagree with the approach but that's what you find in the wild.
The best quality you can get is at odds with the best speed you can get. There are lots of people (especially with specific use cases) who will pay for the best speed they can get that is high enough quality.