We survived NFTs.
We're surviving this nonsense now, too.
Hang in there, babies.
Capitalism hasn't killed us yet.
"ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day"
@MLClark That doesn't surprise me.
People *vastly* underestimate how much LLMs cost to train and run. They are extremely computationally expensive! Applying tricks to lower cost (quantization of vectors, reducing math precision, reducing vector lengths) makes them "dumber." You can run them on lower spec hardware, too, but that makes them much slower.
The "high quality" results people see come at this high cost... and this is why I see the Trough of Disillusionment coming up fast.
Yes indeedy - and that's not even including the human cost involved in curating and training these programs, often outsourced and grossly underpaid.
We saw similar with the "revolution" of blockchain processes applied to cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes. And with them the grift of NFTs. LLMs have been a middling tool with sensational market hype to keep Silicon Valley investment flowing from the start.
All smoke & mirrors. We have bigger, corporate "artificial intelligence" to fight.