For better or for worse, this technology isn't going away any more than search engines, smartphones, or social media have gone away.
replyThose technologies reached profitability relatively early, if not immediately.
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
replyComputers never got profitable. They just made the alternative infeasible.
Also, if you believe Amazon accounting, e-commerce only very recently got somewhat profitable.
These inventions all stopped disrupting the world and just became a part of it. The question is whether LLMs are going to just take their quiet place, or profoundly change (or eliminate) humanity in a self-feeding frenzy towards singularity.
reply> It's not unreasonable that these systems cap out at some point, or perhaps fizzle away entirely.
replyYeah, like computers and mobile phones did. Things that have utility, even if not immediate or initially obvious, don't fizzle out.
That's survivor bias to the extreme.
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