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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. mcv · 1790323163 · focus · HN ↗

            Those were all centralised. I don't think handing most of the internet over to a handful of big tech giants is the same as democratisation.

            For democratisation, I think of open source, open weight models you can run at home, the Fediverse, running your own stuff. I think those are all positive, at least compared to the centralisation.

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