Comment by itishappy

> LLMs haven't enabled any discoveries that were previously out of reach. If you disagree, name one?

While not an LLM, protein folding is now often done via transformer.

> No, it's getting less efficient at an exponential rate without proportional performance gains

AI is expanding in both directions. Sure, it's eating the world with its compute demand and the bitter lesson bites, but we're also seeing drastically improved efficiencies employed alongside. The cost per task is dropping fast.

> The goal of these LLM companies is to funnel all economic activity through their models.

That's what all companies want, AI or otherwise.

No arguments here on the ethics of AI companies though.