[Jensson]

Historically most compute went to run games in peoples homes, because companies didn't see a need to run that much analytics. I don't see why that wouldn't happen now as well, there is a limit to how much value you can get out of this, since they aren't AGI yet.

[chatmasta]

This just seems like a very bold statement to make in the first two years of LLMs. There are so many workflows where they are either not yet embedded at all, or only involved in a limited capacity. It doesn’t take much imagination to see the areas for growth. And that’s before even considering the growth in adoption. I think it’s a safe bet that LLM usage will proliferate in terms of both number of users, and number of inferences per user. And I wouldn’t be surprised if that growth is exponential on both those dimensions.

[Jensson]

> This just seems like a very bold statement to make in the first two years of LLMs

GPT-3 is 5 years old, this tech has been looking for a problem to solve for a really long time now. Many billions has already been burned trying to find a viable business model for these, and so far nothing has been found that warrants anything even close to multi trillion dollar valuations.

Even when the product is free people don't use ChatGPT that much, making things cheaper will just reduce the demand for compute then.

[light_hue_1]

Everyone uses chatgpt now. You too. Hundreds of time per day.

It's just not called chatgpt. Instead it is at the top of every Google search you do. Same technology.

It has basically replaced search for most people. A massive industry turned over in 5 years by a totally new technology.

Funny how the tech took over so completely it blends into the background to the point where you think it doesn't exist.

[ceejayoz]

> It has basically replaced search for most people.

Not because it's better than search was, though.

They lost the spam battle, and internally lost the "ads should be distinct" battle, and now search sucks. It'll happen to the AI models soon enough; I fully expect to be able to buy responses for questions like "what's the best 27" monitor?" via Google AdWords.

[cryptonym]

Using it doesn't mean people like it. It's forced on us. See recent stories about Microsoft.