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Thank you! It's hard to know. The kind of data analysis I'm mostly talking about here is different than LLMs certainly. The latter have interesting potential and lots of problems. I personally am skeptical they will get that good in the near term, and I definitely build in extra skepticism because the biggest AI hypers are the ones who were hyping crypto, NFTs, and the metaverse a year ago.

It's quite possible current LLM tech will plateau and not improve much for a while. But it's possible a new LLM tech will change things dramatically.

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Honestly, the most promising LLM uses I'm seeing are tied into practical applications in things like agtech. Or providing better weather prediction models--which gets away from the A.I. training decline issue because in both cases there are new data inputs on a regular basis that are monitored/modified by human observation.

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Yes absolutely! I'm plugged into the world of cleantech and there the applications of AI are so much more useful and meaningful. The art/text/music gen AI applications are a little too vanity-oriented tbh. The world has some serious problems we need to solve as a civilization. Building algorithms that can write novels is not one of them.

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Agreed. It just grates that so much emphasis is put upon art/text/music when there are SO MANY OTHER important applications for AI that could seriously solve a lot of issues.

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