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I'm not sure what the rush is. Do we have to make it profitable now? 2 years is not a long time. The point has been made elsewhere by other commentators about the dot-com bubble and how long that took for trillion dollar industries to form. It sounds like his gripe with Altman's hype narrative has soley informed his somewhat negative view on LLMs as a whole.

I find it interesting that he almost equates OpenAI === LLMs and misses the fact that the hype is not purely industry driven. For instance, the number of machine learning papers in the last year has quite literally doubled.

This is also typical of an Americentric view on innovation that we don't report on the quiet revolution happening in education in underdeveloped countries that are a direct result of the accessibility of this unprofitable technology.

I don't think we need killer application right now

We also forget the internet bubble happend first

I think the author is looking at LLMs through the lens of Sam Altman's hype narrative and I wonder why we care so much that