“They end up with a business model that is very costly up front and very unproven in terms of how much profit they make on the back end or what the ultimate utility will be. ” says Sarah Myers West. , co-executive director of AINow and former senior AI advisor at the Federal Trade Commission. “There are many different ways to build AI, including more efficient and less power-intensive ways,” she added. “At a time when for the past decade the labs producing AI have been dominated by companies running cloud infrastructure businesses, it is no surprise that the industry has become locked into this large-scale AI paradigm. ”Competitors must bear the huge costs associated with large-scale models.
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