They have a way to decrease cost and probably increase token consumption, with gradual changes and no abrupt jump in capabilities, and users have no way to reliably detect it.
Market will advantage companies that do it.
And they are in the best position to automate online narrative shift (the real LLM killer application IMO) towards "Users are imagining it".
The verb "chooses" here does a lot of the heavy lifting, and implies a consciusness that chooses.
It's making the answer circular and it means that we are just pre-filtering the possible answers for our preconceptions.
My cat is not "less conscious" because he's choosing to sleep all day.
No, the process has impeded even higher standard of living, because it misallocates resources from value generation to value appropriation.
It's the extreme short term profit maximization that makes the economy a zero sum game. Otherwise it is not.
It's water that builds up limescale that it's harmful for the carnivorous plants. The peat moss substrate that carnivorous plants like is acidic and the limescale neutralizes that.
We know how the next token is selected, but not why doing that repeatedly brings all the capabilities it does. We really don't understand how the emergent behaviours emerge.
They have a way to decrease cost and probably increase token consumption, with gradual changes and no abrupt jump in capabilities, and users have no way to reliably detect it.
Market will advantage companies that do it.
And they are in the best position to automate online narrative shift (the real LLM killer application IMO) towards "Users are imagining it".