>Similar, when people financed eg canals and railways or factories in the past, many participants cared about the money.
Those things were tangible and their advantages/disadvantages more immediate than something intangible like ``AI''.
Those things were tangible and their advantages/disadvantages more immediate than something intangible like ``AI''.
Btw, there were plenty of people who thought electricity or the internet were just toys or fads.
We don't even know if we want LLMs in more devices. Likewise we likely do not want Internet/email in every toaster.
LLMs staying the same would be the death of this technology. Even minor improvements don't matter enough.
Voice activated devices are not necessarily paradigm shifting either. We had these for over 25 years now.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity#Cultural_perceptio...
> It is said that in the 1850s, British politician William Ewart Gladstone asked the scientist Michael Faraday why electricity was valuable. Faraday answered, "One day sir, you may tax it."
That admittedly apocryphal anecdote is set 30 years before the turbine you mentioned was invented.