>>mhb+(OP)
Man what I wouldn't give for us to be 5 years in the future, where it has turned out that open source AI running on commodity hardware not only exceeds human needs and has led to a massive global quality of life increase, but also does not need as much hardware, leading to a massive divestment in large corporate data centers, including the implosion of Microsoft, Google, and AWS.
I realize that is fairly implausible.
We'd have to really luck out on:
- mobilizing free and open source AI
- gaining 1 or 2 orders of magnitude of improvement in AI energy efficiency
- connecting open source AI to opportunities for improving human quality of life.
It would be foolish to bet on this, but it would be amazing to strive for it. And I seriously hope we can see it!