I have yet to find LLMs useful beyond basic factoids (I have plans to deploy Llama 2 as an Alexa replacement), but the latest Stable Diffusion model (XL) has continued to impress me. It is clearly a game changer in the utility it provides to my interests. Admittedly, I'm having fun making high quality 8k wallpapers of abstract concepts and fictions places, but a truly honed creator could clearly work wonders with it.

Bitcoin is a solution in search of a much bigger set of problems than it can currently solve now. The ML Renaissance we've hit right now has clear, immediate utility to many. The moves made by the stock art heavyweights is proof enough of how disruptive it is.

Contrast this with how banks and financial institutions have responded to bitcoin. To my knowledge, there's yet to be a Bank of America Coin, a Wells Fargo blockchain solution, or non-fungible tokens offered by RBC. They clearly felt at least somewhat threatened, but not in any meaningful way.