Most AI related valuations are rooted in a narrative that AI is closer to magic, that only a few magicians can preform, than just another approach to software architecture.
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And the setup can be as simple as ollama + openwebui for many cases. Unless you are trying to build out AI-infra-as-a-service, which very few will need I suspect.
LLMs are indeed fascinating. The ability for a machine to simulate what a human would write through statistics.
However, my issue with them is that the AI business is treating it like the 2nd coming of Christ. LLMs should be treated as tools not human replacements.
It just reminds me of that Star Trek planet where actual war took too much money, so the planets made the war virtual and now the computers just a decide who must go in a suicide booth by Thursday and everyone says “yes, this is much better”
There's a recent Indie VC interview with Chris Anderson (the former Wired Editor, not the other one), where he says that every time he looked for the thing that China couldn't do, he never found it https://youtu.be/RqGXFDw_JQ8?si=5P72IXx0jl319s99&t=1400
So much for the U.S. having the most efficient markets. We just funding trillions toward a race we are losing to a bunch of kid engineers. If markets brush this off, then US stickers are officially decoupled from reality
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Haven't tried image or audio generation yet, but I suspect it the results will be similar.
However, my issue with them is that the AI business is treating it like the 2nd coming of Christ. LLMs should be treated as tools not human replacements.