Comment by TeMPOraL

> The people "finding value in them" are other people with money to throw at businesses: investors, capital firms, boards & c suites. I'm not sure anybody who has been laid off because their job got automated away is "finding value" in an LLM.

And the millions with ChatGPT (and other LLM) subscriptions, using it for anything from for-profit and non-profit work to hobby projects and all kinds of matters of personal life.

Contrary to a very popular belief in tech circles, AI is not only about investors. It's a real technology affecting real people in the real world.

In fact, I personally don't give a damn about inverstors here, and I laugh at the "AI bubble" complaints. Yes, it's a bubble, but that's totally irrelevant to the technology being useful. Investors may go bankrupt, but the technology will stay. See e.g. history of rail in the United States - everyone who fronted capital to lay down rail lines lost their shirt, but the hardware remained, and people (including subsequent generations of businesses) put it to good use.