Cloud providers dictate who gets to train AI
Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin))
“Who powers these AI machines? You need something called GPUs. How do you get them? You have to go to this cloud provider. And it’s nearly impossible for a company to get these GPUs because they’re scarce. These cloud providers sell the GPUs to the highest bidder. So they literally dictate today how AI should be trained and who should use AI by choosing who they want to give their GPUs.” — 00:04:35
Context: Extending the feudalism argument to AI; followed by the invisible-tax claim: “50% of what we pay to online services goes to a cloud provider.”