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Because it's mostly a financial scam hedging that there will be some massive revolution in physical hardware technology that isn't coming. And that's just to solve the existing problems in a power efficient manner, that's to say absolutely nothing about the complete fantasy people have about it solving all the world's problems or becoming more than a power hungry guesser.
I use it at work loads as a software developer. It's incredibly useful.
How much electricity was used to train Copilot? How much MORE is going to be used in the future.
Feels to me like you don't understand the problem set and you're just impressed by a tool spitting out guesses based on millions of examples it hoovered up.
I work on AI and it feels to me like you literally don't understand it at all based on your comments in this thread. But you sure do have all the buzzwords down pat.
I would love an example of something I got wrong.
He thinks LLMs could be replaced by a "text template", so yeah, this guy's clearly not actually tried using it for anything meaningful before.
You're right, a template would be more specific to the question and guaranteed accurate, while not taking GPU years to train and untold quantities of stolen content. So, I guess a template would be a much better solution.