Assuming that prices haven’t improved, what money has someone made to pay for the first 5-12 million dollar tab? For AI to take off it has to pay for itself. It very likely will but this requires deployment of highly profitable, working applications.
My bigger point is that there is finite R&D money and massive single models need to have a purpose. That going even bigger needs to accomplish something you need to do for revenue or for an experiment where larger size is meaningful.
Assuming that prices haven’t improved, what money has someone made to pay for the first 5-12 million dollar tab?
For AI to take off it has to pay for itself. It very likely will but this requires deployment of highly profitable, working applications.
You mean GPT-3? Are you asking whether it’s made enough money to pay for itself yet?
My bigger point is that there is finite R&D money and massive single models need to have a purpose. That going even bigger needs to accomplish something you need to do for revenue or for an experiment where larger size is meaningful.