Feels like a pitch from corporate.
“Clearly dwarves are the most cost effective solution.”
“How will the dwarves feel about eating spoiled food and being separated from everything their culture cherishes?”
“Excellent question and the answer is simple: Rum and spiced Whiskey.”
Because the training has diminishing returns, meaning the small improvements between (for example purposes) GPT 3 and 4 will need exponentially more power to have the same effect on GPT 5. In 2022 and 2023 OpenAI and DeepMind both predicted that reaching human accuracy could never be done, the latter concluding even with infinite power.
So in order to get as close as possible then in the future they will need to get as much power as possible. Academic papers outline it as the one true bottleneck.
Butthole Surfers Pepper in my ass?
I think sailing has been pretty staple culture for humans for at least 3000 years if not more.