Perhaps over time it'll get efficient enough to run outside of huge companies; that could be an interesting aspect to keep an eye on.
Though certain novel uses could lead to new individuals or entities gaining power.
I'd like to be hopeful and would like to hear good arguments for how this could happen - but it seems to me improved technology on the whole leads to increased concentration of power - with exceptions and anomalies but that being the dominant trend.
It was about how only big companies have the resources to make big computers that take up a whole room that are powerful enough to run smart AI models.
But if tech progress is any indication, in say 50 year or probably less, we will have the power of a modern day datacenter in our pockets and be able to run smart AI models locally without it being a large corp monopoly.
In all seriousness though there’s plenty of room for improvement both in current models and hardware.
> it seems to me improved technology on the whole leads to increased concentration of power
Which is why we are dominated by IBM, AT&T, Kodak and Xerox.