> These trends combined will mean that eventually it will seem old-fashioned to use a remotely-hosted model for anything other than the most demanding tasks.
replyIf that happens, then I suspect we will see legislation that makes it illegal to use a model outside of those provided by approved vendors like OpenAI. The utility value of LLMs for influencing people as a propaganda and control tool is just too high for those in power to let this technology be democratized.
Look at the state of DRM for video streaming -- how much industry effort has been put into making sure consumers don't own their content? We will see an even bigger push with self-serve models.
I think the genie is out of the bottle—I'm not sure how you could prevent consumers from training open models using open source code, freely available datasets and GPUs that are already deployed…
reply> Just as we don't use mainframes for computation anymore outside of niche tasks like 3D render farms.
replyThe entire banking sector would like a word.
Relative to the rest of software development, I would classify core banking as niche.
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