Comment by hn_acc1
3 days ago
You think that you will be ALLOWED to continue to use AI for free once it can create a LOT of wealth? Or will you have to pay royalties?
The rich CEOs don't want MORE competition - they want LESS competition for being rich. I'm sure they'll find a way to add a "any vibe-coded business owes us 25% royalties" clause any day now, once the first big idea makes some $$. If that ever happens. They're NOT trying to liberate "lay people" to allow them to get rich using their tech, and they won't stand for it.
This. This is what I find hilarious that even smart HN folks seem unable to understand. Transformers tech products are a service offered by private companies who are under no obligation to serve it to you indefinitely. At any given point, they are free to end public access. And you better believe that they will do so if it is in their interest. inb4 open source models, those models are also hosted on the servers of private companies who are also under no obligation to maintain public access indefinitely. And even if you were smart enough to download one in advance, cloud services providers can stop providing access for transformers and you can rest assure that your machine won't be powerful enough to run it. Plus, NVIDIA and co can just keep their GPUS to themselves and only offer subpar versions to customers.
An individual will never win a fight against a corporate entity. And certainly not one in possession of a near AGI system.
Thats borderline aluminum hat conspiracy theory. Corporations arent a monolith, you think amazon is ever going to stop you from renting machines so that you cant run your AI models instead of buying from OpenAI? They have no horse in that race.
> you think amazon is ever going to stop you from renting machines so that you cant run your AI models instead of buying from OpenAI
We are talking about a future with near AGI systems. In such a future, people like you or me have no money to pay those services with because we are all unemployed and starving. And amazon has much bigger ambitions than just resting cloud compute to you. The economy as we know it doesn't really exist in that scenario and neither do the incentives and constraints that exist in our current economies.
People talking about intelligent systems a lot without considering the profound changes it would cause to everything.
There is no future where near AGI and traditional economies coexist. Near AGI is essentially a type of swan