Great! Firstly, it's a totally natural part of technological process that long term and questionable research topics live in academia as they develop and only b

Great! Firstly, it's a totally natural part of technological process that long term and questionable research topics live in academia as they develop and only become private enterprises when they're mature enough, so that seems fine. Secondly, yes lots of money is being spent to create these language models but again - that's natural! This is like when it cost a million dollars to sequence a genome, that was fine, it's an emerging technology and as we get better at it the cost will drop precipitously. Finally, about large corporate giants and AI ethics, I think we're actually in a good position- the key players are established and as a result they understand the reputational risk of putting out a product that does something terrible, people have actually learned from Facebook's mistakes. So all-in-all I think we're in a pretty good position. Oh and all the talk of AGI is bollocks and we shouldn't worry about it.