And we should ignore the alarm bells.
These companies want us to anthropomorphize their software, so let's indulge in that fantasy. What type of person ends up like this? By tracing LLM companies, with all their opportunities and outcomes, over a person's life path, it paints a pretty tropey picture.
I came up with this analogy while trying to unpack what’s going on here to my wife. It started to feel less like market analysis and more like gossiping about “that” person from high school. We all have “that” person in our lives. LLMs are like “them”, but supercharged.
They’re like that wealthy kid who used their influence to bypass every normal social control and bully their way into situations where they were not welcome or qualified to be, and all while being able to wave away any accountability.
So let’s just make AI porn.
I’ve been working on a project to simplify the whole AI/LLM mess for a while now. It started as a primer to the people I consult for, a simple guide to the available options they can consider and they could plan accordingly.
The scope snowballed into a wiki-style launchpad that lays out all possible options, features, benchmarks, tools and strategies anyone could use to integrate AI technology into a small business.
There still doesn't seem to be any comprehensible service that does this. Currently, we only have vague leaderboards and the media screaming “AI! AI! AI! AI! AI! AI! AI!” as if they have a quota to meet.
I decided to pursue this project because I believe I have a unique perspective to offer and saw an opportunity to leverage it towards future opportunities. In my previous work, I encountered Attention Networks while trying to make sense of the mountains of junk data generated during the BIG DATA and Internet of Things craze.
Every consultant on earth would tell executives that BIG DATA was going to be the future currency and that they should not delete a byte of it.
But those consultants were silent when operations needed answers on exactly how and why.
“Just trust the unproven process.”
Sound familiar?