I think all of us right now are thankful that OpenAI exists, but the future should really be one where the LLMs are open source.
A couple of years ago even the word “open” in “OpenAI” had meant that. So I’m sure hoping Llama 2 and other open source endeavors will do to BigAI what the Fediverse did to BigSocial (Twitter, FB) and create a very viable free alternative in the genuinely “Open AI Space” (Three words not two)
All that being said, another challenge is just sheer memory. We may need to have these overlords in the sky all the way until it’s common for a phone or laptop to have 128GB of ram. Most laptops nowadays are still down in the 8GB to 16GB range, and so these for-profit BigAI cloud providers will have a vast marketplace even if for no other reason than that, for at least 5 years or maybe more.