# Artificial intelligence (singulairty) within a few months? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [March 18, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artificial-intelligence-singulairty-within-a-few-months/981324 "2023-03-18T13:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artificial-intelligence-singulairty-within-a-few-months/981324/57 "2023-03-20T11:38:43Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > You will notice how, e.g., Openai charges money for their services (not a problem for the rich and powerful), and that their products are closed-source. Until in a while somebody produces a rival that is open source. Remember all the buzz about Dall-E 2? And the expensive renders at their site, if you ever got off the waiting list for their tightly curated site? Except that Stable Diffusion came along as open source, free to use, free to download, free to modify? Nobody is buzzing about Dall-E 2 anymore, it became an instant also-ran. There is no reason that the same thing cannot and will not happen with LLMs. The interest is there and sooner or later that cat is getting out of its bag --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artificial-intelligence-singulairty-within-a-few-months/981324)._