I don't believe at all in the idea that cheaper LLMs will somehow "democratize LLMs". Rich people will always be able to buy far more compute than poor people, and we know how to turn more compute into more capability (bigger models, more reasoning and more agents).
The only way to address wealth and power inequality is (in democracies) to vote for governments that will fix it.
bigyabai · · focus · HN ↗
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.
roca · · focus · HN ↗
The only way to address wealth and power inequality is (in democracies) to vote for governments that will fix it.