[simulate-me]

I agree 100%, but I think viable businesses will begin to emerge especially as these large models move from text to images (and eventually to video and 3d models). If the examples shown of DALL-E 2 are indicative of its quality, then a large number of creative jobs could be replaced with a single "creative director" using the model. But the high entry cost just to attempt to train such a model will likely remain a hurdle until more business value is proven.

[lumost]

aye - I suspect the other concern is hat the high entry costs can quickly lead to a "second mover" advantage. The first team spends all the money doing the hard R&D and the second team implements a slightly better version for a fraction of the money.

[nullc]

If nothing else, they'd enjoy slacking gain[1] by starting their computation with more advanced hardware.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9912202.pdf