ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”
Although let&#x27;s see if it is sustainable.<p>I pay for ChatGPT Plus but most people aren&#x27;t, and from what I&#x27;ve read they&#x27;re losing money like crazy. We may wind up seeing this as the technical high point before the various competitors cut back on expensive hardware&#x2F;energy usage for the free tier, and the quality of the responses takes a dive.<p>This might sound a bit conspiratorial so apologies for that but back when the competition for Google Assistant&#x2F;Siri&#x2F;Cortana&#x2F;Alexa was super hot, the responses to the various voice assistance was almost eerie in that it could infer what you wanted&#x2F;needed. Then as things cooled off, they got gradually dumber&#x2F;worse every year since then. They&#x27;re legitimately bad today (Siri in particular, but even Google Assistant is much worse than itself from back then). I suspect it is because hardware costs were too high so they found cheaper models that could run on a potato&#x2F;locally.<p>From what I&#x27;ve read to get ChatGPT responses in the times it currently takes, they may need to be running something like two 3080 GPUs, 64 GB of RAM, and a high end CPU, with the power draw associated. So to make the economics work (even with ad revenue for example), either a technological breakthrough has to occur to make running today&#x27;s models much cheaper OR they will cut back making the responses objectively worse (they arguably already did this once with a 3.5 model change).