[giveita]

One difference with AI is that you make a dependency on private corporations for a forever changing tool.

A calculator from 1970 works the same as the one on your phone. A typewriter from 1930 has the same layout roughly as your laptop. The AI you use today will change in 30-90 days time and be different. In addition just 5-10 companies in the world can create AI that you use for work vs. decent competition in regular computer space with a FOSS operating system and kernel available.

Local AI is possible but not in the same league. To boot these tools are VC subsidised with no profitability plan. You are the product again.

[bruce511]

2 companies make airplanes. Around 10 make cars. Entertainment comes from a handful of streaming services. 2 make a phone OS. I could go on.

I guess what I'm saying is that you're right. There's a limited number of AI providers. But just about any technology I use, or the appliances I buy, or transport, or whatever, is taken from a very small pool of suppliers.

So yeah, your argument is completely true, but its also true for most everything else.

[defrost]

Pacific Aerospace is still trading under NZAero .. so what's the other company that makes aircraft?

The PAC Cresco was a solid number that served us well for low level STOL applications across the globe.

[kingkongjaffa]

You know damn well what he means.

Boeing and Airbus are the two leading large passenger plane manufacturers that any random person will encounter taking a flight anywhere.

[defrost]

> You know damn well what he means.

I'll refer you to the HN guidelines.

Moving on;

There isn't a limited number of aircraft suppliers - my son built one at a public high school in Australia, we (small exploration company) flew 19 air frames for several decades, sourced from many suppliers.

In the same manner there will not be a limited number of AI suppliers forever and hardware to train today's monster models will be affordable and available to more and more, smaller and smaller groups, as time progresses.

[raw_anon_1111]

You can already buy a high end fully decked out Mac Mini or Mac Studio that is a perfectly capable locally run LLM backed coding assistant.

In 5 years the price should be down even more.