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  • Your PC is able to run comparatively small language models with limited number of parameters (a few billions). You can even do that on a modern mobile phone. Some of the more advanced models use hundreds of billions or even trillions of parameters. It’s not just the training. It’s more to do with model complexity.

    You can also do weather forecasting on a PC, but the result will not be comparable to a forecast made with a supercomputer.

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    Typo fixes, because while even the most whimsy LLMs can write, apparently I cannot.





  • Yes it will. None of the current AI companies are profitable, have never been profitable and most likely will never be profitable. Their business model simply isn’t economically sustainable. What is being invested in AI is basically imaginary money in a circle-jerk of companies like Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI and others. This artificially bloats their value and there is zero chance in hell that the AI bubble will not burst like nothing ever has before.

    This is not to say that LLMs and other fancy jargon generators cannot be useful. They absolutely can. What will probably happen is that people will realize that they are just fancy guessing machines without real understanding behind and learn to use them in that way. I hope at least.