If LLMs used very little RAM and processing power, was light weight even for Mythos or Sol, would people be as opposed? Like no data centers, no memory shortages, like it was able to run on a calculator with the same performance.
There is benefit in models trained to perform specialized tasks, like assisting in medical imaging interpretation. But we knew this long before the “My LLM is god and deserves all the resources of industry and nature!” era.