I have been very impressed with it so far. So based on the responses no one is doing this.
Here's the youtube video that inspired me to try this:
The whole video makes a nice business case for the upcoming failure of the AI data centers - we shall see.
I watch Rick B quite regularly and a friend and I were discussing. I think Rick is wrong in seeing parallels that don’t exist.
It is true that what I call “the democratization of technology” has slashed the costs of home audio and video production. What was once the exclusive domain of large film, television and record studios is now being produces by people in their own homes at equivalent (or better) quality for a fraction of the cost.
But where Rick errs is concluding that those studios went away or died. But that’s not true at all. Nashville and LA studios are still booked. The large hollywood sound stages are not ghost towns. The big networks are still producing content.
Farriers still exist even though horses haven’t been relevant as transportation or working engines for 100 years. Horses are expensive pets now.
The effect of these developments is primarily to gut the middle— those studios too small run with the big dogs but also too big and expensive to compete with the DiY at home option.
Technology and economic advancement tends to disrupt in a fairly predictable pattern.
At first, you have only your own skills and what you can do. If you can’t do it, it doesn’t get done.
Then, with a bit of wealth, you can hire out what you cannot do on your own. The difference now is not one of cost, but it’s possible vs impossible.
But that bar begins to lower as prosperity increases. Pretty soon you hire out not because you cannot do it, but because you’d prefer not to. It’s purely an opportunity cost.
Eventually the the bar gets so low that you can’t even convince another human to do your convenience thing, so it’s automated.
in other words, first you raise the cows and slaughter them yourself. Then you raise them, but pay for slaughter and processing. Then you don’t bother raising them, you just buy it all preprocessed and cook it yourself. Finally, you don’t even bother cooking, you just go to a steakhouse and hire out everything but the eating.
What has this to do with AI models? Well, the degree to which AI implodes depends primarily on its fundamental utility. And as someone who went pretty hard and fast into it in the last few months, AI is absolutely here to stay. Absolutely the disruption is completely overblown. It will not be replacing all human jobs, or even most.
Mostly, it will SERVE humans and make us more productive, not replace us. As long as the human user has the ability to spot error and correct the AI imperfections, the human+AI is a powerful productive force.
Which means that the AI bubble will pop to the extent that so many are thinking AI will allow us to automate using the bathroom for ourselves and we’ll just be the bloblike lifeforms depicted by Pixar in Wall-E.
AI is here to stay. But it is both being overblown by those who hype it as well as improperly poo-poohed by the naysayers. Local AIs will be quite useful for many of us because we want help working within our own information. But obviously there’s a huge amount of data outside our local networks and PCs, so big datacenter-based AIs are necessary and will always be relevant.
. This has been getting better and better over the last year, rapidly. The current rate of improvement is quite amazing and I'm starting to wonder how long it will be until it takes over large pieces of my job.
