Comment by bauerd
3 days ago
Because these productivity increases will be to the detriment of the average person. We won’t get to reap the benefits.
3 days ago
Because these productivity increases will be to the detriment of the average person. We won’t get to reap the benefits.
You probably will. It's similar to steam engine and mechanical power loom.
It’s unlikely to stop here. Today is a proprietary 5T parameter model, tomorrow it’s 5 100B parameter models that each specialize to specific applications and you can run them on your phone. The direction of travel is not like you think. The real victim will be medium to large software companies that can no longer rely on the difficulty of reproducing or maintaining or hosting their software as moat.
> We won’t get to reap the benefits.
There is no rational reason to think that. A rising tide lifts all boats.
Not a lot of boat lifting happened in the last few decades. (See "WTF happened in 1971".)
Not a lot of lifting? The standard of living increase for the average person has been substantial. Poverty metrics are falling all over the world.
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