alt Hacker NewsWe aren't expected to. We (or our elected representatives) passed a law saying that experimental spending gets tax breaks. And I don't really see an argument that LLMs aren't in an experimental phase.
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jeremyjh • today at 3:06 PM
There are experiments but the majority of chips now are going into production workloads and Meta isn’t even denying that.
danny_codes • today at 3:14 PM
I mean this is clearly a huge stretch. Presumably the intent of this law is to incentivize novel innovation. In this case we incentivize nothing. Data centers are commodities.
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kennywinker • today at 2:21 PM
That law is literally privatized profits, public losses.
Companies get a tax break on risks. If they pan out, they keep the profits and the tax break.
Neoliberalism is a scourge.
I'm happy to make that argument. LLMs were experimental in 2023. It's 2026 now, and enormous numbers of people use them on a daily basis (ChatGPT has 1.2 billion weekly users now, according to Sam Altman at OpenAI DevDay).
They're only experimental in the way that computers are still experimental, since we continue to find new ways to use computers.