[verdverm]

You're crossing products with technology, also some cherry picking of personal perspectives

I personally think GSuite is much better today than it was a decade ago, but that is separate

The underlying hardware has improved, the network, the security, the provenance

Specific to LLMs

1. we have seen rapid improvements and there are a ton more you can see in the research that will be impacting the next round of model train/release cycle. Both algorithms and hardware are improving

2. Open weight models are within spitting distance of the frontier. Within 2 years, smaller and open models will be capable of what frontier is doing today. This has a huge democratization potential

I'd rather see the Ai as an opportunity to break the Oligarchy and the corporate hold over the people. I'm working hard to make it a reality (also working on atproto)

[oblio]

Every time I hear "democratization" from a techbro I keep thinking that the end state is technofeudalism.

We can't fix social problems with technological solutions.

Every scalable solution takes us closer to Extremistan, which is inherently anti democratic.

Read the Black Swan by Taleb.

[verdverm]

Jumping from someone using a word to assigning a pejoritve label to them is by definition a form of bigotry

Democratization, the way I'm using it without all the bias, is simply most people having access to build with a tool or a technology. Would you also argue everyone having access to the printing press is a bad thing? The internet? Right to repair? Right to compute?

Why should we consider Ai access differently?

[oblio]

It's at most self loathing. I'm on HN, so I'm a tech bro. Or I'm bigoted against my own people, which I'm perfectly fine with.

> Why should we consider Ai access differently?

Because people with money, let's call them "capitalists", are using the internet and AI to consolidate power while putting nothing in the place of the things they're replacing. They need a lot of fellow travelers, which are abundant, anyway.

What's different about the internet? Mobile devices, AI? They're everywhere and being used as part of a surveillance network that has absolutely nothing in common with the printing press and literacy.

I hope you're right and we all end with our smart, super capable, private AI. I don't see it happening. Everyone uses Gmail, WhatsApp, Discord, Uber, etc. I don't f** care about 1% that don't, they have no power, no influence. At large, they don't exist.