Comment by LarsDu88

The big problem with AI has been that it has always been so energy intensive compared to biological intelligence. However once, you bake the models into ASICs, suddenly the power consumption goes way down, and moreover the inference WILL be ~250X faster than it currently is (which is already on par with the speed of a human thinking).

That's a very scary inflection point. Imagine in 24 months, a Opus 4.6 level Diffusion based model etched directly onto silicon using the latest TSMC process node.

At that point knowledge work will incredibly commoditized.

I have Opus 4.6 one-shotting recreations of 90s videogames for less than the inflation adjusted cost of buying those original games when they were released! Now cut that cost down by 250X!