But there is so much real economic value being created - not speculation, but actual business processes - billions of dollars - it’s hard to seriously defend the claim that LLMs are “failures” in any practical sense.
Doesn’t mean we aren’t headed for a winter of sobering reality… but it doesn’t invalidate the disruption either.
Most of the value of AI for our organization is the hype itself providing the activation energy, if you will, to make these projects happen. The value added by the AI systems per se has been minimal.
(YMMV but that’s what I’m seeing at the non-tech bigco I’m at—it’s pretty silly but the checks continue to clear so whatever)
Is there really a clear-cut distinction between the two in today's VC and acquisition based economy?
"We just cured cancer! All cancer! With a simple pill!"
"But you promised it would rejuvenate everyone to the metabolism of a 20 year old and make us biologically immortal!"
New headline: "After spending billions, project to achieve immortality has little to show..."