dreaife的休憩小栈

Before you read, a reminder: this article only represents the author’s personal views.

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To be honest, I’m anxious. Not because the models are so strong that they might replace me or anything, but because from the frequent overheating of model servers and the continuously shrinking quotas, I’ve realized that the first round of selection from this new era may already have arrived.

If, in the future, human cognition will be fitted with an AI exoskeleton, then the gap between someone who can use SOTA models and someone who can’t will likely be widened enormously—just because of a single model.

And that’s where my anxiety lies. If using a SOTA model costs 100u, most people can probably manage that / or would be willing to pay it. But if today’s price is only the subsidized price, then when it becomes 200u or 400u, will most people still be willing to pay such an exorbitant price for a model that isn’t guaranteed to improve their lives, treating it as a necessity? This is the first filter: with money alone, people can be split into those who can use SOTA models and those who can’t.

Although it may be a bit early to say this at a time that probably still counts as the main upward wave of the AI boom, at this point in time it might also be considered a “right-side” habit, I guess (

As for why I thought of this, it’s probably because of Mythos. I saw what it can do in parts of the security domain, and that probably hit a nerve, making me realize they aren’t actually satisfied with just the coding domain.

Then that jolt made me think back to their work and promotion in the video domain, and their attempts in composition. In fact, they stopped being satisfied with only the code domain a long time ago. So when an industry moves from promotion into a plateau phase, will the cost of use for users still be as low as it is now?

As someone without much capital, I can only be pushed forward by the times, groping ahead, not knowing right from wrong—perhaps it is indeed tragic. However, the opportunities of the new world are also spread out in front of everyone equally; perhaps this, too, is a kind of gift from the times.