All the big techs have accelerated zilch in actual features released or user-facing bugs fixed. All that seems to have accelerated is cybersecurity offense and defense.

And these are supposedly the most brilliant corporations around, so other companies are seeing even less gain.

I stick with my theory that LLMs are GPU-like, not CPU-like. They will rarely solve a problem like an adept, but they can solve 1 000 000 million low-hanging fruit problems within a second in a way that there was just not enough eyeballs for before. They can also brute force problems.

AL/ML isn't going away, but what that means for demand for various types of memory remains to be seen. LLM are clearly a commodity, and once they are "good enough" then it'll just be about price, meaning that smaller and less memory hungry models will win.

It's a bit like the Sun/etc workstation market vs PCs, and high end expensive PCs vs cheap ones. Once the cheap PCs became "good enough" then they naturally dominated.

Not only could the world run as normal without AI as we have it today, it would run better. The tech we have is a net negative, slowing things down and making things harder without providing value.