Technology

I don't think they said they were "better", if I recall they did "almost as much with far less resources". and really the bigger thing was they were releasing a lot as open source.

IMO I think that's what the real tech giants are worried about. Honestly I think I'm actually seeing the real goal of AI... and the worse part of it is, AI is the secondary feature.

Sam Altmen made a comment on wanting to see basically compute sold as like a utility to people. Crucial is getting out of selling hardware to people. I'm leaning towards the idea that the ballooning hardware costs isn't a side effect, it's the primary intention. The idea of it is basically to move all of computing to a model more like Netflix, or say what Googles stadia gaming console was etc....

The goal is a future where personal PCs are a rare luxury like power generators. For normal use we get crappy thin clients to connect to cloud services with our software. Super government and corporate friendly. Everything super accessible by government and scannable for AI training etc... Encryption can basically become meaningless because they can log straight into the machines.

China's a big threat because.. they could encourage in house models. IE an agent that runs in your house, or companies run them in their server rooms, and most importantly they can be trained individually with your personal data and company data, without creating the privacy and security nightmares of wondering if chatgpt could share all of your personal information with a random dude or competing company. Plus if we are talking individual hardware, that hurts the actual overall goal of shifting all focus of all hardware manufacturers towards data center modules that consumers and even medium sized businesses can only rent.