In reply to Ian Betteridge.

Yeah, the frequent refrain from AI apologists is familiar from the cryptocurrency bubble: "the future is already here, man! You have to either catch up or be left behind!" They're using it to defend pushing LLMs and ML in general into places they don't belong, but my only somewhat optimistic takeaway is that they're right to some degree: the underlying technology is already here, and it's available even on small platforms with models that you can train yourself. Even after the bubble bursts, we're not going to end up in some Butlerian jihad situation where we have computers that can't even do natural language processing anymore.

The concerning thing is that the gold rush/hype bubble is because the training data sets are so huge, and the resources required are so expensive, that only the largest companies can afford it. Which, obviously, is the opposite of technology that could've been democratizing.