"It's now turned into a whole marketing circus (maybe to justify these ludicrous billion-dollar valuations?)."
Yes theres an entire ecosystem being built up around language models that has to stay afloat for another 5 years at least, to hope for a significant breakthrough.
"I find it unfortunate that all of the clearly brilliant engineers working at these companies are to preoccupied with always chasing newer and better model trying to reach the dream of AGI do not stop and ask themselves: who are they working for?"
Have you seen the people who do OpenAI demos? It becomes pretty apparent upon inspection, what is driving said people.
I personally view all this stuff as noise. Im more interested in seeing any contributions to the real economy. Not some competition stuff that is irrelevant to the welfare of people.
Yes theres an entire ecosystem being built up around language models that has to stay afloat for another 5 years at least, to hope for a significant breakthrough.