[wrs]

That is what he said.

>When the AI bubble bursts, there will be stellar bargains on GPUs…

>these standalone models can do amazing things

>The things these open source standalone models can do will only expand, and they will become a given for our computing applications.

I think of the “big” foundation models as the “fossil fuel” of AI. Once the bubble pops and we can’t afford to train any more of them, we’ll be distilling and remixing the ones we managed to make during this weird period where they were feasible.

[4k0hz]

Quaaludes are maybe a better analogy since the original, strong ones are mostly gone and the pills being manufactured today are significantly weaker. And their effect on Wall Street's decision making is pretty comparable to AI's

[epicureanideal]

Based on my experience, even the models we have now are a huge benefit when properly used. And we probably have a decade or two of significant gains we can make just with harnesses, skills, heuristics, etc. even if no further progress were made on models.

[pishpash]

They'll have stale knowledge though. It's like someone stopped interacting with society five years ago. Are they employable?