I don't want to bash on the article, but a much more interesting take with llm that worked at 1kk TPS would the the countless amount of real time applications you could build with it.
I like electronic music, I dance to it a lot. What if I had a LLM that had enough throughput and low latency to do the reverse, take my dancing and generate music.
We are still stuck stargazing raw artificial cognitive intelligence, but real progress will be when we stop perceiving these as external intelligence and just an extension of ourselves.