🎠 Low Tech AI

Thomas Wolf · 14 May 2025

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Our reading
A fixed level of AI intelligence gets cheaper every year.

Their wordsExtrapolating along these two lines means a fixed level of intelligence gets cheaper every year, fit increasingly more affordable hardware.
Our reading
Low-tech AI, small cheap models plugged into existing systems, will bring surprisingly rapid societal change.

Their wordsThis shift toward low-tech AI will lead to surprisingly rapid societal changes.

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