Comment by skeeter2020

Agree on weirdness but not on the idea of funding science experiments:

>> away from long-term research toward commercial AI products and large language models - LLMs

This feels more like what I see every day: the people in charge desperately looking for some way - any way - to capitalize on the frenzy. They're not looking to fund research; they just want to get even richer. It's pets.ai this time.