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I mean... You could? AI comes in all kinds of forms. It's been around practically since Eliza. What is (not) here to stay are the techbros who think every problem can be solved with LLMs. I imagine that once the bubble bursts and the LLM hype is gone, AI will go back to exactly what it was before ChatGPT came along. After all, IMO it's quite true that the AIs nobody talks about are the AIs that are actually doing good or interesting things. All of those AIs have been pushed to the backseat because LLMs have taken the driver and passenger seats, but the AIs working on cures for cancer (assuming we don't already have said cure and it just isn't profitable enough to talk about/market) for example are still being advanced.
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Saying that LLMs will disappear once the financial hype desinflate is like saying that LLMs are the answer to everything.
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Personally I read the GP post with more emphasis on this bit:

> What is (not) here to stay are the techbros who think every problem can be solved with LLMs.

LLMs are in all likelyhood here to stay, but the scumbags doing business around them right now are hopefully going away eventually.

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I agree on that part as well, but saying that AI will go back at what it was before ChatGPT came along is false. LLM will still be a standalone product and will be taken for granted. People will (maybe? hopefully?) eventually learn to use them properly and not generate tons of slop for the sake of using AI. Many "AI companies" will disappear from the face of Earth. But our reality has changed.
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