Wealthier people will have more AI compute power available to them to continuously take care of their interests, and "defend" against attacking AIs that will try to work against their interests.
Will wealthier people access better AIs?
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#42One of the reasons OpenAI released ChatGPT when they did was to do the opposite of this, per Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI. source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/on-with-kara-swisher... Swisher: One of the excuses that tech always uses is you don’t understand it, we need to keep it in the back room. It’s often about competition. Altman: Well, for us it’s the opposite. I mean, what we’ve said all along —…
This could change very quickly once AI has become an established industry and the markets are captured, and the familiarity argument above doesn't fully apply anymore.
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#43Signs point to yes!
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#45It may also be that poor people have their services (drivers license renewal, K-12 school, apartment maintenance requests, welfare, job interviews) "improved" by AI while the affluent get to talk to a human
The jetsetters could very well have their personal assistants decide whether/how to interact personally with AI in the wild, or rather to have one of their own local personal AI sub-assistants take care of it.
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#46Considering that the cost of training these things is in the millions of dollars. And the cost per request is on the order of cents. It's likely that AI will operate much like Alexa or the iPhone in that you can't buy a better one than anyone else gets.
Software doesn't really lend itself to custom elitism because the marginal costs are usually close to zero.
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#47"Today, billionaires and middle-class everyday people use the same phones."
Do they? I assume they would have at least additional security features and security monitoring given they're a higher profile target than the average person.
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#48Arguably this is the case now. I don’t think there’s any way to access chatGPT-4 unless you have the financial bandwidth to allocate an extra $20/month for an OpenAI subscription.
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#49Yes