Comment by oblio
6 days ago
Smartphones were financially viable from day 1, though. I think LLMs will be used a lot and in a lot of places but the current level of investment they're getting right now feels out of line to me. Kind of like what I expect them to get in 10 years from now, when they're mature.
> Smartphones were financially viable from day 1, though.
Also, they were nothing more than the combination of two things which already existed, and which were already successful and financially viable: cellular phones and PDAs. In fact, I (and plenty of others I presume) already used that combination before smartphones: a PDA and a cellular phone, connected through Bluetooth to share the network connection.