Public education is important. Without it, it’s harder to stay above average. But there are those who say “it is not my duty to fund the education of anyone else.”
Hence, here we are.
My advice is: Don’t let someone else control your life.
Switch occupation every 2 years, even if you find a great environment. Don’t chase, for what you need must come to you.
Understand no one can give you the answers you seek; you have to live it.
If somehow recovering the capex expenditure is not counted, if somehow the cost of developing future models is not counted, then yes, inference costs of current leading models allow a profit.
But those things are tied together.
Even xAI, that now has a reasonably competitive model, is struggling to achieve PMF. Meta is in shambles because their models have underperformed for years now.
There are people who think knowledge discovery is just a matter of parroting past behavior and trying things at random until something sticks. I don’t.
I am thinking there’s a large category of problems that can be solved by resampling existing proofs.
It’s the kind of brute force expedition machine can attempt relentlessly where humans would go mad trying.
It probably doesn’t really advance the field, but it can turn conjectures into theorems.