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You know what is the problem with AI/LLMs? It's not if they work or not. It's not if they are good or not, if this is true Intelligence or not. We can scold AI, we can pull the theory, the paper, the philosophers, we can show again and again that aside of highly specialized, narrow usecases with specific extremely high quality data, LLMs and AI is pile of horse manure but it will not matter. Why? Because it's currently profitable. It makes money. It's kind of like with cryptocurrencies - the base technology has some uses, aside of that they are useless, unfortunately enough people believed in the profit, so although you cannot go to the shop and buy bread with your BTC, millions of people cling to it because it started to have VALUE and generate PROFIT.

There is a scene from the profetic SF masterpiece by Paul Verhoeven - namely "Robocop" that fits here like a glove. I'm talking about the scene when Dick Jones (played by Ronny Cox) confronts Bob Morton (played by Miguel Ferrer) in a bathroom. Jones, a hardened old corporate officer says one sentence:

_I had a guaranteed military sale with ED 209 - renovation program, spare parts for twenty-five years... *Who cares if it worked or not?*_

And that's the point. Until money flows - who cares if it works or not?

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