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I'll believe that these things are possible when there's some empirical evidence that they are.
Why don't you buy my amazing car. Yes it looks like that car that your nan drives to the shops but actually it can fly and time travel as well.
Those results are still tightly controlled by NDAs. They need time for FDA approval, patents, etc. Then time to get to market. These are not released in scientific papers anymore. It's protected because it cost so much up front.
Surely in the age of self-promoting narcissists we would hear about these break-throughs in all the media?.. Not just "it can potentially cure cancer if you give us another $tn", the real results under review by relevant authorities/academics. Moreover, these breakthroughs do require a shitload of compute, but I do not see how a chatbot could be helpful with it. Other than, of course, stealing the preprinted work of some academic and claiming it their own, as recently with OpenAI Navier–Stokes equations conundrum. Can you imagine how many problems like that would already be solved if all these billions were spent on it, rather than chatbots drawing glossy pics?..
You may be missing my point. THEY aren't being kept in the dark. YOU are. Anyone involved in the project signs an NDA. Then the relevant experts can't talk about it.
This is big with legislators too. They are taken on tours under NDA. They see there is no water use, they listen to the noise levels, they see the new substation provided to the community. But they cannot tell the constituents those specifics. Only "it's not like the news is claiming".
And the news is not the customer. No one in the industry cares about bad press. Customers won't stop buying. So the build out accelerates.