She’s old. She doesn’t want to read a book. As best as I can tell she wants to have something slightly brain engaging during commercials when watching shows, but is far too stubborn to learn a new game she doesn’t already know.
Who are we to tell someone what they should want to do with their twilight years?
The unfortunate reality is they cannot be avoided in some cases. There is not a paid alternative to Facebook, nor are there to a lot of f2p mobile games.
My grandma had a tablet about a decade ago, and I loaded it up with tons of paid $1-$3 casino games for her (it’s what she wanted) but a decade later, when going to reinstall them to a new tablet, all of them no longer exist on the play store and seemingly 100% of current games are either ad supported or require iap to refil your virtual currency.
She literally did what you asked and today she still has no options. What should my 86 year old grandma do in this case?
Inference is dirt cheap in comparison. Hundreds to thousands of concurrent users can be served by hardware costing in the high-thousands to low-ten-thousands.
Training those same foundational models is weeks to months of time on tens to hundreds of millions worth of hardware.