Currently it’s the only thing that keeps optimism up in US economy propping up soft landing and tech investment..
To summarize the conversation, it basically came back with tacos with turkey and filling, quesadillas with turkey and filling, burritos with turkey and filling, etc.
The person concluded that it was "amazing" and he was headed out the door to Trader Joe's.
I find this kind of false enthusiasm strange and I struggle to understand the motivation to pretend something is useful other than to feel like you are on the same side as the next big thing.
I continue to believe that for a confluence of reasons we are in an era of extreme credulity and that people believe in every new idea with plenty of opportunists to capitalize on it. I think GPU's are at the center of it and every time they cross a performance threshold new use cases emerge very few of which seem to really find product market fit.
I do think when it's all said and done it's going to be great- there will be an enormous excess of powerful chips with nobody to use them and research costs will nosedive. Research should not be solely in the hands of people with the most wealthy backers.
I give it 5 years and we will see consolidation once again with the better funded AI companies out there that have private data and research to their name.
I can assure you that's not a frequent motivation to start any kind of startup.