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by embedding-shape 28 days ago
This is the biggest part that confuses me:

> How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this. It is an unsolved problem

Sure, Anthropic might feel like it "isn't worth releasing old stuff for free" or whatever, but to claim that this is an unsolved problem, or there is zero mechanisms available for sharing the usefulness of AI is straight up bullshit, or said by someone who didn't take five minutes to look around themselves to see what others are doing.

> The average person, even in richer nations cannot afford a computer that can run claude sonnet 4 for instance.

Currently this is true, absolutely, since everything Anthropic is doing is closed-source, compared to OpenAI or pretty much lab out there. And who knows what would happen if they actually made Sonnet available to the public, might be there are resource-constrained people out there who could make it run on smaller hardware, we've seen that happen time and time again. Even the smaller models released today were unthinkinkable to have running locally just a year ago, I'm sure there are a lot of nifty people out there that simply don't have access today, and not because of the hardware.