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I think "bailed out" is the wrong term, they'll probably be subsumed by another big tech company, like Microsoft or Amazon for relatively cheap. They'll then slow the roll on training new models and start commoditizing it rather than just burning money.
I suspect that if/when OpenAI folds, it'll cause the whole Ai landscape to cool off a bit.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm taking crazy pills. I've never seen such a huge investment take place with such a weak argument for profitability at some vague point in the future.
If you believe the hype, the returns should be astronomical. Even if they just deliver a fraction of the value promised they are huge game changers.
The core issue is that, with most things Ai, solving 90% of a problem is usually easier than solving the last 10%. You can't have autonomous cars that can't follow directions from firefighters and cops and you can't have Agents that will blow up your work flow when stumbling into something unexpected. When you have automated "all purpose" machine, those "edge cases" end up opening you to a lot of risk that can hit in an instant. That risk is what's really holding things back.
If the industry had paid attention to the autonomous vehicle landscape they'd seen that rolling out LLMs was going to be a long and arduous process, meaning slower and smaller returns than being promised.
The problem is that the vast majority of people don't understand the tech or what it's capable of.
And for once, this is kind of a real "both sides" argument.
The pro AI side is delusional and think LLMs can do anything, or will "eventually". You also have a bunch of fascists pushing the tech because generative AI is useful for propaganda in a number of ways and they want to use it to make shitty media because actual artists have generally been anti-fascist.
The anti AI side is more right, but they still buy into the bullshit about what the tech can actually do. They also think AI is going to take all the jobs even though it fundamentally can't. They ignore that while some companies might try to replace workers they quickly and quietly reverse course and rehire people.
And I'm basically convinced that a lot of the narrative of how the average anti-AI person talks about it is driven by the AI companies because it helps them sell their lies about what the tech is capable of.
Also, both sides ignore that most of the reports of layoffs because of AI are just companies that are using AI as a cover to not freak out investors, but they aren't actually replacing workers with AI, just reducing the number and overworking the rest.