Personally I think the latest round of models that have caught the attention of pop culture have doubled down on the idea of AI being a "clever party trick". Th

Personally I think the latest round of models that have caught the attention of pop culture have doubled down on the idea of AI being a "clever party trick". There's a lot of demos and pontificating but still not a clear pathway between generating pictures of llamas playing basketball and any kind of step change in commercial activity. I feel like we're getting even further towards optimizing for cool tricks instead of utility. Otoh, I believe there is lots of cool, less popular in pop-culture ML work that is moving us in commercially valuable directions. The implication in the article that these demos will re-ignite VC interest after many were previously burned investing in AI is funny to me. People who threw money at a shiny object they didn't understand got disappointed, now a new one comes along and they're diving right back in