I've seen people literally use it as find and replace 🤦‍♂️

They spent a trillion dollars on it. It can't be a slightly better search and a way for schoolchildren to cheat. It has to be the next industrial revolution, otherwise their investment was not justified.

Kind of like using a steam locomotive to clean the bottom of your pool.

I'm surprised that wasn't tried on the reflecting pool in D.C. "We love the old-timey trains, don't we, folks? And now were going to use one in the most amazing way the world has ever seen!"

Exactly. And the few things GenAI does well aren't that compute intensive and can run on local models.

LLMs are terrible at writing new text that matters, i.e. anything at all technical or important. But they're good at reformatting content into properly structured English, editing text for grammar, and explaining everyday concepts. But they're so good at those things, that a tiny model running on consumer hardware can do it.

So, I don't understand how anyone can possibly expect LLMs to be a profitable business. Where are the moats?

In the early days of the steam engine's success, what helped it find an economic footing was the need to pump water from coal mines. At the time, logistics of transporting things over large distances were difficult, so having the coal supply on-site was an obvious benefit. So while using a steam engine to pump water from a pool would be quite archaic and inefficient, but at least for emptying the pool, it could technically be used.

Of course, a locomotive moving the engine around would be entirely impractical for pumping a somewhat steady stream. Chlorinated water would also make for poor steam, I imagine.

I guess driving a scrubber back and forth would be possible, but I could do that more efficiently by hand. I drink less water, eat less coal, don't require rails and skilled operators and I'm easier to transport to the site. I'm not sure how the carbon footprint for a human compares to that of extracting and processing iron, but it won't be favourable if at least one human is involved.

The scrubber couldn't be as large and heavy though. If you need a heavy scrubber, you'd also need a powerful motivator. That's where a steam engine might have an edge over me: sheer power output.

To match that, you'd have to employ and pay multiple people. So if the steam engine's rent seems cheaper than that...

There are lists of technology which will work for AI such as programmer. which require analytics of AI and work with that frame of mind.

We were shown the list in my school 15 years ago and told "some day soon AI will take these jobs, so choose wisely" with a rough percentage for each job.

Okay, let AI take my job then, that would happen anyway. Jobs have been gouged ever since society has mutated apart from its basic building blocks. I at least want peace of mind!