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@joachim@boitam.eu Machine learning isn't going away. Open source AI models anybody can download and run on a local machine for free aren't going away. There is no need for these humongous computing centres to run "AI" unless you are chasing the dream of having one universal AI system that does it all. Instead of training models to do everything (sloppily), we can train them to do get really good at only one thing. The whole idea of using natural language to tell the computer what you want it to do is completely absurd IMHO, yet LLMs are trying to do that. We already have a lot of beautiful languages in which we can tell computers exactly what to do, they are strict and unambiguous, the computer will always do exactly the same thing when you combine the same instructions with the same data. The idea of talking to a computer like you talk to a human may be an old dream, but it is a very silly one. If you have a powerful machine, you want it to behave in a reliable and reproducible manner. Human languages aren't made for machines, they're made for upright walking apes with swollen mutant brains.