[throwaway81523]

Realistically, AI network training at the level being done by corporations with big server farms, becomes accessible to solo devs and hobbyists (let's count GPU's as general purpose). So if you want your own network for Stable Diffusion or Leela Chess, you can do on your own PC. I think that is the most interesting obvious consequence.

Also, large scale data hoarding becomes far more affordable (I assume the petabyte ram modules also mean exabyte disk drives). So you can be your own Internet Archive, which is great. Alternatively, you can be your own NSA or Google/Facebook in terms of tracking everyone, which is less great.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

I think when that hardware is attainable and the tech democratized things are going to get very bizarre very quickly. I'm hitting a wall in my imagination of what a society where this is common even looks like and it scares me.

[8jef]

Like any of your great grand parents would be absolutely scared of actual you and stuff you do on a daily basis, at first.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

I imagine limitless tailor made entertainment and control on a per-user basis.

"Play me Frank Zappa's new album featuring Kanye West."

[mid-kid]

> Also, large scale data hoarding becomes far more affordable (I assume the petabyte ram modules also mean exabyte disk drives).

It will also mean data in general will be bigger and scale accordingly.

[ReactiveJelly]

Imagine just saving every web page your computer ever browsers, forever.