LLAMA3 AND THE ERA OF ABUNDANT AI

With the recent release of Meta's LLAMA3 models the future of AI seems to be one of abundant intelligence. Around a year ago there were some fears of all the benefits of AI accruing to a small portion of the population, but this seems less likely as the cost to running the applications are dropping dramatically.

What this means for society is still a bit unknown. Being that AI is a double edged sword, as are all new tools, it could be used to leverage the decency in humanity, or alternatively it could magnify the evil capacity of our species.

The crossroads we face is like none other. Some comparisons could be made to the power of nuclear energy but AI is far more permeable to all aspects of society and therefore the outcomes are much more variable.

Our best hope would be that with the additional intelligence available to us, humanity will add to our wells of wisdom. This has not necessarily been the case in the recent history with the explosion of information and data, but perhaps the missing ingredient has always been abundant intelligence.