If only a certain country and their president didn’t cause the prices of GPU and RAM to skyrocket, maybe it’d be more affordable. That’s not AIs fault, that’s capitalisms fault. Inb4 China comes out with RTX GPUs for a fraction of the price and leads to a democratization of AI technology. But “it’s unaffordable” is how all new tech feats always start, that’s how the shiniest new tech has always been. Were people complaining about this when Half Life 2 was being released with all its DX9 bells and whistles? No, because a brand new “512mb GPU” at that time was cutting edge and less affordable, but at least people were being paid enough to make that expense. Now that capitalism has destroyed our economy, people are blaming the prices and not the capitalism. It’s silly.