Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT
This is just one of the many reasons why I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m as concerned about AI models as people around me are, either for art, text, or coding.<p>These technologies today are highly subsidized because the people making them want to create a lot of buzz. Yes, as they mature they&#x27;re going to get better; but I also suspect they&#x27;re going to become more limited, harder to use, more narrowly targeted, and more expensive to access.<p>In general, we rarely use new technology to its full potential, because doing so usually closes off commercial opportunities to exploit that technology. The norm is that new technologies are used to a fraction of their capabilities on the market, and are often locked down and purposefully hindered in order to protect market segments that are built around exploiting those technologies. See the ebook market and voice assistants, just off the top of my head.<p>Given that so much of this AI training&#x2F;hosting is happening serverside where access controls are easy to add and where AI as a service is the most obvious monetization model, I would not be surprised at all to see AI go in the same direction.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what will happen with ChatGPT -- this is not a prediction of what I think will definitely happen. But I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s impossible that ChatGPT transitions to focusing specifically on being a platform for other businesses, even if that limits its flexibility and the range of content it can produce, and even if that means it gets priced primarily for large businesses rather than for indies&#x2F;startups.