@jens I'm strongly in the "yes, but..." camp here. You're right about the current hype cycle, funding, how it is used to affect people largely around the world.

I probably end up pedantic because of my technical perspective on it. I think there are even good uses for LLMs (text related work), but it's not anythink like the chatbots, agents, general code generators today...

For the general population, AI means those things today, and in that I agree.

Is this reasonable, in your view, or no?

@jens I read the thread, it's a good thread.

I guess I'm just delineating the caveat of what kind of LLM can be neutral technology. Which *is* a minor footnote in what is currently happening.

Thanks for writing this up 😁

@nielsa And frankly, as a neutral tech or tool, I do find the whole thing interesting!

It's just... pretty much like fusion is interesting. I would love for us to have cheap, safe "desktop" fusion.

It's just always been 20 years away, and inextricably tied up with dirty fission, so how can one *practically* support one and not the other?

The cost-benefit-analysis suggests to me that the cost of getting this wrong is so much higher than the cost of missing out on good stuff, though.