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visarga t1_iy91piz wrote

Reply to comment by musing2020 in How should the society - right now - adapt to the AI boom? by reviedox

> All the AI predictions mentioned by various posts in this sub will more likely be under the control of elites.

You can download a model, but you can't download a Google or FaceBook. AI needs less resources to run locally, instead of a whole data centre it needs just a desktop computer in case of Stable Diffusion or an expensive multi-GPU box in case of a model like GPT-3.

The moral - by running on people's hardware AI could be serving us instead of the big corporations. AI will empower everyone with new skills, lowering the entry barrier to various fields. That is a democratising influence.

I think Google and FB right now are scared of the replacement of manual browsing with chat dialogue agents. If those agents are controlled by the users it means no advertising will be possible anymore. Your own agent will be helpful and polite, will separate the spam from the ham and serve you just what you need without all the crap.

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musing2020 t1_iyb99m4 wrote

Your points are well intentioned and are dependent upon individual abilities to create utilities using freely available AI models. A bit calibration is required when we want to generalize the abilities across the board.

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