On: AI and the Future of Humanity – Yuval Noah Harari at the Frontiers Forum

Computing power is one thing, I think the real issue for basement hackers is the training data. They can never have the same amount of data as the big players.

I thought those scrapes of the web like The Pile we're only around like 45TB?

It's a good point though. I'm sure logistically it'd also be way harder than the embarrassingly parallel nature of crypto mining.