> That is, these companies are largely not doing the hard part, Are they the hard parts though? The short time it took from the first waves of public excitment

> That is, these companies are largely not doing the hard part, Are they the hard parts though? The short time it took from the first waves of public excitment around DALL-E to stable diffusion being the well established baseline looks more like the class quantity of problems that can be reliably solved by shoving enough resources at it. What I consider hard problems are those full of non-obvious dead ends are where no matter how much you invest, you might just dig yourself in deeper.