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1. bigyabai · 1790314277 · focus · HN ↗

   > my team’s goal is ultimately to make AI much cheaper and lower-latency, and I don’t think that’s good for people right now

   I have a lot of bones to pick with Google's morality, but "democratizing the transformer and LLMs" is at the bottom of my list.

   1. isodev · 1790314799 · focus · HN ↗

      So far, 100% of things "democratized" by big tech have been bad for people.

      1. bigyabai · 1790315285 · focus · HN ↗

         Oh, that's true. I just remembered that I hate Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Android, Gemma, Google Docs and free CalDAV syncing.

         Woe is me, victim of the 21st century separated from my true calling of paying for software.

         Edit (rate limited):

         > Does Gemma belong to this list?

         Yes, and Tensorflow too.

         1. nvme0n1p1 · 1790315588 · focus · HN ↗

            There's no free lunch. You're paying one way or another.

            1. doh · 1790315728 · focus · HN ↗

               Welcome to the capitalism 101. Everything has price. So far, I would say, humanity done quite well under this _oppressive_ regime when compared with others.
            2. brainwad · 1790320588 · focus · HN ↗

               No, sometimes someone else is paying for it. A classic example would be GPS - paid for by US taxpayers but benefiting the world. Yes now there are, for national security reasons, several other GNSSes but still huge swathes of the world ride free.

               1. nvme0n1p1 · 1790357313 · focus · HN ↗

                  > huge swathes of the world ride free

                  You really can't think of any way the rest of the world is paying for their dependence on US tech, besides monetarily?

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