I think the best point made in this conversation is that AI is often enough used to do things quickly that have little value, or just waste people’s time.

I am glad to see articles like this that evaluate impact, but I wish the following would get more public interest:

With LLMs we are chasing sort-of linear growth in capability at exponential cost increases for power and compute.

Were you mad when the government bailed out mis-managed banks? The mother of all government bailouts might be using the US taxpayer to fund idiot companies like Anthropic and OpenAI that are spending $1000 in costs to earn $100.

I am starting to feel like the entire industry is lazy: we need fundamental new research in energy and compute efficient AI. I do love seeing non-LLM research efforts and more being done with much smaller task-focused models, but the overall approach we are taking in the USA is f$cking crazy. I fear we are going to lose big-time on this one.