> So intelligence has turned into a utility.
reply"Utility" is close, but "energy source" may be closer. When it becomes the thing powering the pace of work itself, raising prices is less about charging for access and more about taxing dependency.
Like every startup ever, they were selling it to you at a loss to compete for market share and are slowly increasing pricing. Duh.
replyBut the unique thing about AI is that the "world" is depending on it like water, oil, gas, etc. Not just a specific use case.
replySo it should be free? What's your point exactly?
replyNo, that's not my point. My point is that AI looks like something fairly unique in today's landscape: a resource that almost everyone is starting to depend on. It's a bit like the Internet, except usage is metered, and paying more can improve the quality of the result for the same underlying task, such as cybersecurity.
replyIn this context I also imagine we will have greater and greater local models, and the (dependency) ending game is completely unclear.
It's just computation, which the world already depended on. we're in the mainframe era, but "AI" will go personal, and on-device.
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