Ed Zitron

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

And the majority of them are white fellas.

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

I don't know.

Perhaps there's something going on there, too.

I fully agree.

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

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

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

They never should have been scaled at this scale.

It never made sense.

Never once.

And in the end, it is normal technology.

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

Microsoft Word doing autocomplete shouldn't scare you.

Grammarly shouldn't scare you.

The actual technology itself is not scaring you.

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

And also, like you said,

The willingness we have to believe people who are working on something who have supposed expertise as if expertise guarantees that you're correct or indeed guarantees that you know what you're talking about or indeed that you can see the future.