You may be correct from a technology perspective but you are forgetting how people work. These days people won’t even run their own cable modem or Wi-Fi access point. They would rather rent them from the ISP.
Right. This is because the ISPs actively obfuscate or hide the knowledge necessary to do this. In other words, they expect us to offload the intelligence behind this from them. It’s already happening. It’s what they done with cooking and pretty much every other skill we humans have quite amazingly developed. The news doesn’t report about Local Language Models. They promote hyperscale data center Large Language Model stuff, making us associate “AI” with that and thus mystifying other ideas (that are less beholden to large corporations) to the point that “normies” are made to feel as though they are not intelligent enough to run this stuff themselves.
Just look at Linux. It’s still treated as a kind of niche, “computer-smart” thing. I’m a GenX/Millennial “normie.” I do have certain computer skills that both Boomers and GenZ lack, but I’m probably about at pace with most people my age. I switched over to Linux about a year and a half ago (from MacOS, where all the computing knowledge has been offloaded to a corporation) and have not looked back. These things are learnable. The learning just needs to be encouraged and made available. But the Sam Altman’s of the world have such utter contempt for the rest of us they’d rather us be the mouth-breathing, drool-faced sheep they see us rather than actually do anything to better the human condition.
I’m talking about something that runs locally. On your phone, even. You wouldn’t need a cable modem, wifi or an ISP. You wouldn’t need Sam Altman or OpenAI. That’s all I’m trying to say. I’m refuting the idea that we will need to buy intelligence like Sam Altman is claiming in the OP.
You may be correct from a technology perspective but you are forgetting how people work. These days people won’t even run their own cable modem or Wi-Fi access point. They would rather rent them from the ISP.
Right. This is because the ISPs actively obfuscate or hide the knowledge necessary to do this. In other words, they expect us to offload the intelligence behind this from them. It’s already happening. It’s what they done with cooking and pretty much every other skill we humans have quite amazingly developed. The news doesn’t report about Local Language Models. They promote hyperscale data center Large Language Model stuff, making us associate “AI” with that and thus mystifying other ideas (that are less beholden to large corporations) to the point that “normies” are made to feel as though they are not intelligent enough to run this stuff themselves.
Just look at Linux. It’s still treated as a kind of niche, “computer-smart” thing. I’m a GenX/Millennial “normie.” I do have certain computer skills that both Boomers and GenZ lack, but I’m probably about at pace with most people my age. I switched over to Linux about a year and a half ago (from MacOS, where all the computing knowledge has been offloaded to a corporation) and have not looked back. These things are learnable. The learning just needs to be encouraged and made available. But the Sam Altman’s of the world have such utter contempt for the rest of us they’d rather us be the mouth-breathing, drool-faced sheep they see us rather than actually do anything to better the human condition.
I’m talking about something that runs locally. On your phone, even. You wouldn’t need a cable modem, wifi or an ISP. You wouldn’t need Sam Altman or OpenAI. That’s all I’m trying to say. I’m refuting the idea that we will need to buy intelligence like Sam Altman is claiming in the OP.