John Carlos Baez on Nostr: Beato isn't really saying AI will fail - despite the denialists who claim it's never ...
Beato isn't really saying AI will fail - despite the denialists who claim it's never good for anything, it's too useful for too many things to really "fail". He's saying something a bit more interesting: for many purposes, big AI can be replaced by LLMs that you can run on your laptop. They already exist and you can download them for free. So the massive investment in data centers, expecting huge profits when we all start paying monthly fees to run LLMs, may soon be undercut by something cheaper.
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