Random thought of the day about #AI :
The amount of computing power made available to the average user nowadays to run inference for these #LLMs probably far exceeds the amount of compute you would need to (for example) render a Blender video, or run post-production on 4K-quality video, which would probably be more useful to most average users than what LLMs provide — and they provide all that computing power for free to literally hundreds of millions of users.
I mean, come on, you stupid despot-kings of Silicon Valley, if you are going to provide that much free computing power to just anyone, can you at least let me do like Adobe Premier or After Affects, i.e. post-production of my home videos, directly on Google Drive without extorting me for monthly subscription fees?
On the one hand, it’s incredible that so much computing power is available to ordinary people now, on the other hand, it is even more incredible how much those computers (and the energy needed to power them) are wasted on something so frivolous as drawing a Pikachu with big boobs, or as dangerous talking with a companion that will always agree with you even if you suggest committing suicide.
But I guess that is why this tech financial bubble must eventually explode. No one can reasonably provide that much computing power for something so useless for free for very long, it is just not economically feasible.
