> There is a potential, latent within language models and hybrid systems – indeed, within almost the entire menagerie of machine learning methods – to create a

> There is a potential, latent within language models and hybrid systems – indeed, within almost the entire menagerie of machine learning methods – to create a unified computational model for a universally useful platform. This potential is being wasted, indeed, suppressed as oceans of capital, talent and hardware is poured into privately owned things such as ChatGPT. If that is the core point of the article, then it is incredibly vague. All large projects are built by organized groups of humans, and profit-seeking companies are just one form. The article feels like gesticulating at the problem without outlining an actual solution. Building a product requires people (and the capital to support them), coordinated towards a common goal and it can’t be designed by everyone in the world.