Do you have any sources that cite figures that would suggest this? To be honest, I have my doubts—except for the statement that money is being shifted back and forth; however, I don’t understand why massive investments in data centers would make sense in this context if it’s not just making a profit for Nvidia and such.
As I said, I don’t consider LLMs and image generation to be technologies without use cases. I’m simply saying that the impact of these technologies is being significantly and very deliberately overestimated. Take so-called AI agents, for example: they’re a practical thing, but miles away from how they’re being sold.
Furthermore, even Open AI is very far from being in the black, and I consider it highly doubtful that this will ever be possible given the considerable costs involved. In my opinion, the only option would be to focus on marketing opportunities, which is the business model of the classic Google search engine—but this would have a very negative impact on user value.
HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
It is not obvious that LLMs are ever going to be much more than they are now, and a major change in architecture is going to take a long time to get up to this level, especially as all the money chases LLMs and the video cards let the magic smoke out day by day.
I agree that AI is going to eat the world and people really do have no understanding of the ground shaking under their feet. “Tomorrow will be basically like today, but with bigger TVs,” is a strong bias to be pushing against. But that all said, that does not mean that LLMs are it. It is entirely possible that their cap is slop and no higher.