What if the world had one GPU per person?

In our story contest, we ask people to imagine the future, evenly distributed.

The AI revolution has only just begun to affect humanity, and billions of humans have yet to so much as talk to a frontier LLM like Fable or Sol. This is in large part because compute limitations make it impossible to serve the highest-quality AIs to more than a relative handful of users: humanity is GPU-poor. Only a few million GPUs capable of efficiently serving frontier models are manufactured annually.

This will increase, however, as both hardware and software are scaled and optimized. Someday, such as in 2040, there may be available, for every human being, the performance equivalent of ‘a B300 GPU for contemporary LLMs’.

What would this world be like?

What will our world be like when (not if) every human being has access to the equivalent of a Fable or Sol LLM 24/7/365? Will this lead to a panopticon of indefatigable AI surveillance? Will education be revolutionized by infinitely patient tutors? Will social media cease to exist as we know it? Will healthcare be revolutionized by world class AI doctors and personalized medicines? What will happen in the oft-ignored developing world?

AI as we know it already holds the potential to be far more transformative than the smartphone or perhaps even the Internet itself.

We invite you to imagine this ‘mundane’ future.

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