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How about a bubble like the internet? 90% of dotcoms failed in the 90s but the internet is alive and strong today. AI is just a tool, and from my experience an extremely useful one.
I get that argument. Perhaps the fact that I'm a professor influences my thinking. And, since we are in a privacy community, something like ChatGPT and privacy don't mix.
Meredith Whittaker (Signal) says^1:
(I do keep on eye on their progress because it is interesting https://benchmarks.llmonitor.com/)
Agreed that privacy can be a concern. Ideally it will be possible to run LLMs locally in the near future, but we'll see.