Comment by dofm

I think this is weird advice.

Learn how to make language models from scratch, yes. But learn how to use them, in the context of other machine learning tools, on very small hardware.

When the bubble bursts (and I still tend towards thinking it could burst rather than be deflated in a manageable way), the focus will be on uses of AI that are not like the hyperscalars' products.

People will still be interested in useful AI being added to small things — assistive technologies, home security, garden monitoring, their phones and smartwatches, robotics.

Instead of reductive, reactive make-an-anthropic-competitor advice like this, what about advising 17 year olds to focus on broad, integrated, helpful AI — or on going back through eighty years of history to look at AI projects that failed and reassess them?