Cool. Arrest the paid agitators, and charge them with espionage.

It’s a subscription model. Hard pass.

10 years is about right to go from “this will take $100,000 a day to run” to “this can run on my machine”.

The cloud is extremely accessible. If I want thousands of cores and mountains of ram, it’s available to me in minutes. That’s not the problem. To even run one of these models, let alone train it, would be hundreds of thousands of dollars per day, and yes, if I had deep enough pockets I could easily do it on AWS or Azure.

It just requires far too much computing power for regular people to attain, regardless of what you know.

The energy requirements alone are massive. The software is far more ready for regular joes to use it than the hardware is. That’s going to take a decade or two to catch up.

Get back to me when you have 500k cores and exabytes of ram on your laptop. It’s going to be awhile.

It will be a long time before you or I will be able to run these models. They are WAY beyond anything consumer hardware would be able to run, and will remain so for at least a decade.

And think of where the west will be in that 10 years.

So about half a day’s revenue. (No, really, it’s half a day’s revenue)