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AI peaked a while ago IMO, the nail in the coffin for me was Microsoft making deals for nuclear power plants to power their data centers for ML and AI. It's great they're using nuclear power since it's at least a clean source of energy, but it's also extremely telling of the limitations and power requirements for these languages models. Without some kind of power reduction breakthrough, AI will continue to stall while these companies think of new ways to sell snake oil and gimmicks.
I was just thinking to myself as I got mad at my Google Home speaker for now sucking that they probably did it on purpose because the electrical and processing requirements were too high to keep it at the levels from, say, 2019. They had to cut off half of the assistant's brain to stop draining money.
Huh, never thought of that that way.
Glad to see I'm not the only one harboring this conspiracy.
It's the only way to explain the lobotomy going from Google Now to Assistant