> Should we have scrapped it all, called it a crime against humanity, and never developed AI, because it will take a decade to disseminate the benefits to everyone?

Nah, we should have:

1. invested less, in a more targeted way

2. ideally like ARPANET, with the benefits given to all humanity

3. with fair royalties paid to all (where relevant)

4. and by creating an ever growing shared curated and high quality data set that would allow anyone to create their own competitive LLM

ARPANET & co were all taxpayer funded and the internet has created more wealth than most human inventions. The base should be part of the commons, everyone should knock themselves out by building on top.

Exactly like the internet.