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iLoveOncall 16 hours ago

Are you seriously comparing the internet and LLMs?

You know what's the difference between both?

Internet costs a fraction of LLMs to serve literally everyone in the world. It is universally useful and has continuously become more and more useful since it started.

LLMs are insanely expensive to the point of them having to be sold at a loss to have people using them, while the scope they are promised to cover has narrowed year after year, from "it will automate everything for every job" to "it can write boilerplate code for you if you're a bit lucky and nobody looks at the code review too closely".

The only inevitability when it comes to LLMs is that investments will dry up, the bubble will pop, and it's gonna be like back in 2000.

jononor 16 hours ago | parent [-]

The Internet was also very expensive in its infancy. Dialup charged by the minute for mere kilobytes. The cost per MB dropped by a factor 1000x over the course of 30 years. It took billions in investments, and millions of people working on it to make it happen. Give LLLms a couple of decades, and the price for a given capability will have increased by 1-4 orders of magnitude.