Machine learning has niches it's useful in (although it has sometimes been the hammer that makes everything look like a nail). Large language models on the other hand? I haven't seen them be useful in anything. Any results they generate are questionable at best and a lot of the time just plain wrong. With all the costs and other downsides, I think we should classify them as a failed technology and stop using them. The only reason anybody uses them today is the huge amount of marketing behind it and the fact the technology is being given away for almost nothing. If the actual cost would be charged, I doubt there would be a lot of interest. We've seen all those AI companies struggling to generate any revenue, their costs are in the billions and their revenue from AI products is in the millions, it doesn't add up.