Keep pulling the thread on Andrej Karpathy.
Frontier models like ChatGPT and GPT-4o do not currently offer a way to pay for better performance, making them equally accessible to all users, including prominent figures like Bill Gates.
If it becomes possible to purchase superior versions of models like ChatGPT, large organizations will use their vast resources to acquire more intelligence, changing the current dynamic of equal access.
ChatGPT is the fastest growing consumer application in history.
The benefits of current Large Language Models have been significantly more life-altering for individuals than for large organizations like Google or the government of the United States.
The emergence of widely available tools like ChatGPT contradicts common science fiction predictions of AI as a top-secret government project.