LLMs nach der Apokalypse

Zugegeben, es gibt aktuell wenig wirklich neutrale Berichterstattung zum Thema LLMs und deren Wirtschaftlichkeit. Es existieren beide Extreme des Spektrums, und hier deshalb mal eine dann doch eher pessimistische Vorhersage:

The AI bubble is on its way to sucking up a trillion dollars and not all of that money is coming from Saudi royals, hedge fund bastards and Elon Musk’s credulous creditors. Plenty of it will come out of the savings of working people who’ve forced to play the suckers at the table thanks to the replacement of guaranteed pensions with “market-based pensions” that only pay out if you guess right about which stocks to buy:

Those people are going to get wrecked. And so are the rest of us. You don’t need to be an AI investor to get wiped out by the AI investment bubble, either. With 30+% of the S&P 500 tied up in seven AI companies’ stock, the coming crash will definitely escape containment and crash the whole damned economy. #

Als jemand, der sowohl lange genug dabei ist, um noch die erste Blase in den 2000ern platzen erlebt zu haben, stimme ich immerhin zu, dass das Finanzielle in eine ähnliche Richtung kippt wie damals. Interessanter jedoch noch ist die Frage, was wirklich potenziell anschließend mit diesen Werkzeugen geschehen wird:

This is basically a little special-purpose Alexa, except it doesn’t connect to the internet at all (and therefore doesn’t leak any of your data). In Warden’s demo, the gadget is a button-sized voice assistant that is meant to be integrated into a dishwasher, which can interpret the dishwasher’s manual for you. If your dishes come out dirty or if the drain gets clogged, you press the button, describe your issue in pretty vague terms, and it instantly speaks aloud all the troubleshooting steps to deal with it.