> LLMs (for non-coding tasks) will likely fizzle out as expensive talking fidget spinners and not the world saviors that the companies behind them envision them to be.

100% wrong. LLMs are wildly useful in daily life, even the cheaper models.

I guess it's not news but it is pretty wild to see the level of millenarianism espoused by all of these guys.

The board of OpenAI is supposedly going to "determine the fate of the world", robotics to be "completely solved" by 2020, the goal of OpenAI is to "avoid an AGI dictatorship".

Is nobody in these very rich guys' spheres pushing back on their thought process? So far we are multiple years in with much investment and little return, and no obvious large-scale product-market fit, much less a superintelligence.

As a bonus, they lay out the OpenAI business model:

> Our fundraising conversations show that:

> * Ilya and I are able to convince reputable people that AGI can really happen in the next ≤10 years

> * There’s appetite for donations from those people

> * There’s very large appetite for investments from those people

I see multiple Cybertrucks every day driving around LA.

I'll admit the design has grown on me, and we need more mainstream vehicles challenging the boring design "norms".

I would love to see a cross between the Model Y and Cybertruck in the future.

There was a few programs like this. The earliest one I recall was Neko https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

But I think there were sheep, dancing babies (ugh!!), something like Bonzi Buddy rings a bell (I once had to clean something named that off a colleague’s workstation when he reported it thinking it was malware).

There was also toys like this on Linux and Unix too. Most famously xeyes.

I miss the playful era when things like this and novelty screensavers were “cool”.