> That's how technology always goes

This is not how AI has ever gone. Every approach so far has either been a total dead end, or the underlying concept got pivoted into a simplified, not-AI tech.

This new approach of machine learning content generation will either keep developing, or it will join everything else in the history of AI by hitting a point of diminishing to zero returns.

But their comment is about 2 years out of date, and AI image gen has got exponentially better at text than when the models and LoRAs they mentioned were SOTA.

I agree we probably won't magically scale current techniques to AGI, but I also think the local maxima for creative output is going to be high enough that it changes how we approach it the way computers changed how we approach knowledge work.

That's why I focus on it at least.

This is not how AI has ever gone. Every approach so far has either been a total dead end, or the underlying concept got pivoted into a simplified, not-AI tech.

You're talking about the progress of technology. I'm talking about how humans use technology in it's early states. They're not mutually exclusive.