> For 2, I think we are nearing saturation for the usefulness of AI. I certainly could be wrong
Unless some other breakthrough in AI happens, like applying AI to some other large market.
Overall i think that AI is here to stay, if anything it will become more common.
Maybe in ten years we’ll all have some 256gb ai machine at home, like we most (all?) of us have AC.
I think LLMs will start being etched into custom chips. There’s already some companies experimenting with it. The benefits are enormous - you get better performance, lower memory usage and no need to load a model in ram. Companies would be able to sell local LLMs while keeping their models proprietary.
If that happens, hopefully the ram price comes back to earth.