Clearly some descendant of ChatGTP will eventually be free. Moore’s law will guarantee it. The current price to generate a response is just a few cents, so that will soon enough be fractions of a cent.
As we run into the limits of Moore's law, I'm not convinced of that particular aspect. We're only a generation or two from the gap between junctions becoming an angstrom wide, which is a pretty hard physical limit on how small we can go. That doesn't prevent other advances, but eventually we'll run out of room on Moore's law. Moore's law has lasted decades so why do I think it must eventually fall? Because the underlying physics of it. The electrons need a place to go, and we can't shrink any smaller than that based on our current understanding of physics.
