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Yes, there is possibly too much money in it for what it potentially can deliver within 5, 10, 15 years from now in terms of revenue, but even if the technology stopped evolving today and we would just keep getting faster and cheaper outputs, it would still be incredibly useful and valuable. And of course, it's not stopping.
I said questionable in nature in comparison to the other two bubbles, which were established technology to build off of.
I agree on usefulness, to a point. It's being used everywhere, and while an LLM breaking in some situation can be countered, look how many places it's being given full reins and crossed fingers. Knowing it makes mistakes. Bad mistakes, Maybe not often, but sometimes you need as close to 100% as possible, with redundancies in place.
I use LLMs myself, and in just using it for things that aren't critical, I'll catch that small percentage and realize, it's not good enough for most things it's being put in. I do find it amazing that it produces what it does, but that doesn't make me ignore when it breaks gloriously.
Sorry, but Java applets, for example, were not established technology and plenty of people were saying things like "it's impractical, with personal computers and existing communications it's too slow to fetch those and run them, and the JVM is slow, and the benefit of cross-platform compatibility etc is something too abstract for this day when some people still write practical programs in assembly languages" and so on.
Okay, the comparison here is that for playing a tune on a webpage putting in a Java applet was probably a bad idea in year 1997, suppose that tune was practical to download and play, eh.
But then a few years later it became commonplace to have (not Java applets, but Flash applets and JS, but same idea) such things, until everyone got tired of something blasting once they visit a webpage and people stopped doing that to reduce the risk of having their legs broken IRL.
Now most webpages are dynamic.