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@drwhax I am old enough to remember RAM prices fluctuating between "having to sell a kidney" and "oooh, I get to max out my motherboard if I collect the deposit on these empty beer bottles" several times.
Walter van Holst
Doing stuff in data protection, healthcare law and privacy-by-design. Moonlighting as digital rights activist. Innocent bystander in infosec scene.
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@drwhax On the flip side, when the subsidy for compute ends, edge computing will become affordable again. And given that things like rudimentary voice recognition now has been reduced to models that fit in an ESP32, I am inclined to think that special-purpose LLMs may be a cat that has left the bag or at least to be in a different league than frontier models.
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@drwhax The laws of diminishing returns will kick in at some point. In the meantime, it is unlikely to be a smooth ride.