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Ed Zitron

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

The funny thing is, though, there is something to that where it is a very male technology.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And I do wonder, like, it's not something I think two white guys can necessarily get into in any depth without a woman present so that we could actually have a rounded conversation.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

But it is interesting that pretty much everyone running this stuff is a guy.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And the majority of them are white fellas.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And they're all claiming that everything they build is amazing.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I don't know.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Perhaps there's something going on there, too.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I fully agree.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And I think all of this, large language models in a vacuum, very interesting technology.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

The problem is they tried to scale them like a giant multi-trillion dollar industry, which I don't think they fit into.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

The future of LLMs, in whatever form they have, is on device.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

They never should have been scaled at this scale.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

It never made sense.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Never once.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And in the end, it is normal technology.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And that is the thing to always take away from this, which is you wouldn't freak out about Kubernetes.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Microsoft Word doing autocomplete shouldn't scare you.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Grammarly shouldn't scare you.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

The actual technology itself is not scaring you.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

It's the people around it and the people's extrapolations.