One extremely minor correction - you said they’re designed to make enormous piles of money and yet none of these(1) are cash flow positive or have any clear path to profitability. The only way a company makes money off this (outside an acquisition to let founders exit with bags of cash) is if one of these companies is allowed to create a monopoly leading to a corporate autocracy. General language models are absolutely shit in terms of efficiency compared to literally any other computing tool - they just look shiny.
Please note - lots of pre chatgpt neural networks are happily chugging away doing good and important works… my statement excludes everything pre-ML bubble and a fair few legitimately interesting ML applications developed afterwards which you’ll never fucking hear about.
Edited to add: Just as a note it’s always possible that this AI gold rush actually does lead to an AGI but, lucky for me, if that happens the greedy as fuck MBAs will absolutely end civilization before any of you could type up “told you so” so I’m willing to take this bet.
One extremely minor correction - you said they’re designed to make enormous piles of money and yet none of these(1) are cash flow positive or have any clear path to profitability. The only way a company makes money off this (outside an acquisition to let founders exit with bags of cash) is if one of these companies is allowed to create a monopoly leading to a corporate autocracy. General language models are absolutely shit in terms of efficiency compared to literally any other computing tool - they just look shiny.
Edited to add: Just as a note it’s always possible that this AI gold rush actually does lead to an AGI but, lucky for me, if that happens the greedy as fuck MBAs will absolutely end civilization before any of you could type up “told you so” so I’m willing to take this bet.