Comment by simonw
"With what is called AI today, only the largest corporations can afford to train the models"
I take it you're very positive about Andrej's new project which allows anyone to train a model for a few hundred dollars which is comparable to the state-of-the-art from just 5 years ago then.
For a few hundred dollars, given heavily-VC-subsidized hardware that is probably partially funded by nvidia and various AI companies, etc.
Can I run it on my local hardware (nvidia consumer card, AMD cpu)? No. When could that corporation cut off my access to that hardware if I did anything it didn't like? Anytime.
Lots of things have started off cheap / subsidized to put competitors out of business, and then the prices go up, up and up..