Comment by reverius42
7 days ago
A well-equipped local-AI-capable machine is already much cheaper than a CNC machine -- and will presumably get cheaper over time, RAM prices notwithstanding.
I'm not sure the comparison works if individuals can afford these machines themselves and don't have to commute to a factory to use them; I doubt employers will serve as either gatekeepers or sole providers of access to AI.
Your comment makes sense. Today's DGX Spark can easily run qwen-3.6-35B, which is indeed much stronger than the gpt-o1 two years ago. The future is hard to predict, perhaps the bigger issue is that while production capacity exists, where the demand will come from.