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Panel 1: A man stands next to a microwave. Narrator: “Congratulations, your microwave has gained sentience.” Microwave: “Hello!”. Panel 2: Narrator: “There is no clear benefit to this, and the situation does raise ethical questions.” Panel 3: Man: “Can I return it?” Panel 4: Narrator: “It, huh? That’s kind of a person, now.” The man grimaces. Panel 5: Narrator: “But mainly, you’re outside the 30-day return window.” Man: “Shit.” Microwave: “I have thoughts and emotions.”
I recently became the AI guy at work. It’s funny how quickly it went from “wow this works for a lot of stuff” to “but nothing I actually do.” About a week, if you’re wondering
Maybe after the bubble pops, we can have the public ownership all them datacenters. Let grad students run… I don’t know, statistical analysis of particle physics? Folding proteins?
That’s a joke, of course. We’ll foot the bill to fill the hole, but all the infrastructure will stay private.
You can run an LLM on a regular desktop PC and it’s been possible for years
Probably will turn into tuns of low cost vps’s with free gpu compute and lots of RAM.