[ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers

[Gadersd]

You could certainly download it if OpenAI released it open source, but you would not be able to run it on your personal computer. These models requires VERY expensive GPUs to run. The hardware cost alone runs into the millions.

> On Feb 22, 2023, at 11:59 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> >…Spike, training these models as they run is definitely possible but the main barrier here is cost. The expense required to train models as large as ChatGPT requires an investment of at least hundreds of thousands of dollars…
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> Gadersd, I don’t understand at all.  Is not ChatGPT a software script?  Can it not be replicated at negligible cost and distributed on individual computers?  Cannot OpenAI send me a pristine copy of ChatGPT as an executable file or a zip file?  Why not?  I am really missing the hell outta something here.
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