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Will wealthier people access better AIs?

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Re: Will wealthier people access better AIs?

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Post by Ekaros »

wsgeorge wrote: post #4

Ask yourself the same question but for web services, games, etc. A wealth gap will exist wrt access to better AI.

A 200 and 2000 computer has power difference of a few times for example for gaming. And that is single machine where scaling is hard. With AI you can and actually have to throw more resources at.

Re: Will wealthier people access better AIs?

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Post by akomtu »

There is a naive assumption that AI will be one of the tools at our disposal and that the rich will own better versions of that tool. The rich people merely control the money flow, and they are only useful because the state cannot do it better. With the "eye of sauron" that AI will likely become, the state will know better how to shape the money flow and so it won't need rich or wealthy people. Everyone will be on a subsistence wage, while the state-AI is building the next gen AI with transecendent capabilities.

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Post by DANmode »

wsgeorge wrote: post #4

Ask yourself the same question but for web services, games, etc. A wealth gap will exist wrt access to better AI.

Select few will pay for premium access, many or most will "pay" with their data.

Trading your private info for societal gain is a proven model, it'll now extend to your..voice patterns?, and so on.

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Post by ftxbro »

I think it's a great question "What are the social-political-economic ramifications of the dawn of superhuman machine cognition?" It's too big a question for me I am not smart enough to imagine! I hope at least some humans survive and I hope it's not in some horrible dystopia.

Re: Will wealthier people access better AIs?

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Post by takinola »

Possibly, probably.

Technology does not, in itself, create all the advantages. I likely have the same model iPhone as Bezos but his contact list probably includes much more powerful people. Similarly, we could have access to the same AI but he’d be positioned to derive much more leverage from it

Re: Will wealthier people access better AIs?

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Post by adam_arthur »

smt88 wrote: post #2

AIs are already incredibly expensive. There's no reason to think the current best AIs will be democratized across economic classes. M

You can use chatgpt and many others for free. Doesn’t seem expensive at all actually.

I’m sure a super premium category will emerge, but the 80-20 rule likely applies here.

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