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It’s just the natural counterpart to dogmatic inevitabilism — dogmatic denialism. One denies the present, the other the (recent) past. It’s honestly an understandable PoV though when you consider A) most people understand “AI” and “chatbot” to be synonyms, and B) the blockchain hype cycle(s) bred some deep cynicism about software innovation.

Funny seeing that comment on this post in particular, tho. When OP says “I’m not sure it’s a world I want”, I really don’t think they’re thinking about corporate revenue opportunities… More like Rehoboam, if not Skynet.

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> most people understand “AI” and “chatbot” to be synonyms

This might be true (or not), but for sure not on this site.

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I mean...

  LLMs have not yet discovered a business model that justifies the massive expenditure of training and hosting them,

The only way one could say such a thing is if they think chatbots are the only real application.