>>107176071 (OP)
The upside to this is once most of the heavy lifting has been done in terms of large scale training, both hardware requirements and prices to run AI for general use purpose at the consumer level will become even cheaper than "average PCs" are now. And by general use, I mean everything we currently use computr for that can be replaced by ai will be. It's expensive to get off the ground now in terms of computing lower, yes, but on the other side of this is computing so efficient it will make current computers, even mobile hardware, look like power hungry relics.