The arrow isn't pointing at the plateau section of the curve.

It doesn't play into any fear-inducing narratives so it's not popular.

Whether inference is profitable or not is not a global yes/no question. It depends heavily on the circumstances, what you're using it for and what you're charging for it. A lot of the money being invested in research right now is going into making inference cheaper, which would of course make it more profitable to sell at current price points. Or just run it yourself, local models are getting quite capable these days.

I wouldn't bet on any specific company being the ones to survive this, especially not first-movers like OpenAI. More likely they'll spend their money blazing the trail and the ones to profit from it will be the ones who followed along behind. When a company goes bankrupt it doesn't poof out of existence, its assets get sold off at pennies on the dollar and then whoever bought those assets gets a chance at running them without the overhead of the previous company's debt.

Looks like it was already on a long-term decline, AI just threw it off a cliff. It was likely ripe for an alternative.

This seems somewhat misleading. Lots of products take a lot of investment in them for many years before they reach profitability. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, for example, was in development for 7 years and another three years after that before it was profitable. The Falcon 9 rocket took 13 years to develop and now it's the most profitable satellite launcher around. The Dyson bag-free cyclonic vacuum cleaner took 15 years to develop.

Most of this AI stuff has only been in heavy development since ChatGPT burst upon the scene in 2023. It's not unreasonable to see the industry still heavily into the investment and development side of things.

Oh, that's going to calm things down, surely.

Give it a test and see how accurate it is, if it's good enough then go ahead. People have been using AI-based OCR for literal decades already, nothing has fundamentally changed. There's just a sudden moral panic about it lately.

I think prohibiting reverse engineering would do far more harm.

If only there were some way they could have stopped him. But alas, congress is powerless when it comes to things like declaring war or allocating budget or impeaching presidents.

They're the some of the people that can be fooled all of the time.

Maybe we shouldn't judge real world technology off of plot points in works of fiction. Fiction must tell a story that sells copies, first and foremost.

They also want to make sure he gets sent where he doesn't want to go.