[criddell]

All I’m really saying is that new technology is often only available to the wealthy (companies, governments and rich Texans) but eventually things get cheaper and more widely available. It was hard to get access to IBM System/360 levels of computation in 1964 and in 2024 most of us have far more capabilities in the inexpensive machines in our pockets.

I think these new AIs will follow similar curves. Hard to get access to and expensive to use at first. Over time they will get more powerful and less expensive. GPT4 is already less than $1 / day.

[eesmith]

Then you should structure your point about computing in general, and not be specific to the IBM 360.

In 1964 it made no sense to say "I'm concerned about who will get access to it (or rather who won't get access to it) and what it will cost or who will pay for it" about the IBM 360 because that system was available to the same customers as the previous generation of machines, plus it made computing more widely affordable to other customers.

While Gemini appears to be more expensive than thus less generally available than other LLMs.