[RNCTX]

> This material is based upon work supported by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contracts No.R00112030005, HR001120C0123, HR001120C0124 and FA8750-20-2-1004 and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under Contract No. FA8750-20-2-1004.

This is why AI is just a marketing term with no real future.

There isn't room for corporations to profit from it out of the gate + into the future indefinitely. No one is going to pay an AWS tax to use their models on every single API hit forever. No one is going to pay nVidia a license fee to use their image recognition tools forever. If the creators of HTML, CSS, and Javascript wanted license fees we wouldn't be using them right now either.

There are two groups of people, off the top of my head, who care about all of this:

1) The US Military, because the budget for their murder robots is theoretically infinite.

2) Google and Facebook because the budget for their spyware is theoretically infinite.

To everyone else, it's much ado about nothing.

[Scaevolus]

Nvidia makes most of their money selling GPUs as computational accelerators-- both generic CUDA and neural network applications.

They don't _need_ to profit off their ML models. It's a value added service. Ensuring their hardware has marketshare at the leading edge of the ecosystem is the main point.

[RNCTX]

They didn't profit off of ML models, they profited from the DARPA contract. See point above about murder robots.