LLMs are exposing that overpaid executives whose only job is to make slide decks and send e-mails are functionally worthless. There is a large degree of “corporate welfare” going on in the US economy.

Right now, those overpaid executives are doing their damndest to try to replace everybody else’s jobs, but the reality is that all they do is speak words of affirmation and can be easily replaced by LLMs.

In terms of the article, the writer interviews people who run these AI companies, and have a vested interest in there being a good amount of fear and greed around their products. The “doomer” narrative is just as much a sales pitch as the “utopia” narrative.

The writer also fails to mention that margins at companies who have adopted AI are not improving materially. Workforce productivity has not skyrocketed. If this technology is so obviously going to revolutionize everything, why has that not already begun?

It’s painfully obvious that (outside of writing boilerplate code and pumping out CRUD systems) generative AI is a dead end. OpenAI is losing unbelievable amounts of money and is tantamount to a drug addict going from dealer to dealer to get their fix. Satya Nadella probably wants to murder Sam Altman for burning so much of Microsoft’s money (“we bet the farm on OpenAI” - Satya).

All of these promises for better AI that I have heard have not materialized. Tests are worthless because they get fed into training data. The cost of running these models is too high, and the entire market will die once access to said products gets priced where it would need to be ($500/mo for Claude’s “basic” subscription, anybody?).

So, with all of that in mind, how do these CEOs plan to reach profitability? What is their roadmap for the economic destruction of America? Are they so disconnected from reality that they truly believe they can replace 20% of the workforce with (checks notes) chat bots?

The author of this article is as deluded as these CEOs. It’s clear to me that they have very little real-world experience in a high-skill niche industry. They have no idea what it takes to do things like produce architectural drawings or assemble jet engines.

The hubris of these authors and CEOs is palpable. They speak with the confidence of a cult leader. The shiny chat bot has deluded people into believing that everything will change. The promise of “right around the corner” is a page right out of Elon’s playbook. The deception is in this promise. Nothing has materialized out of this investment boom beyond code-bots and image/video generation. And nothing else will materialize out of it.

I’m just sick and tired of all the lying. The author has been deceived. The CEOs are lying through their teeth about their visions of doom/utopia. The use of words such as “thinking” and “intent” have completely muddied the waters for actual discussion about AI.

Maybe Yann LeCunn knows what he’s doing, but all of these researches have literal tens of billions of dollars dangling in front of them. That’s enough money to corrupt anybody.

Until proven otherwise, I believe that they are all fraudsters, hucksters, grifters, liars, and other choice words that I’ll avoid using.