It emphasizes the statement if you ask me.

Only many years after learning of the speech I read online that it's allegedly "a gaffe".

At least for me the solution was to grind ear training for a few weeks/ months 10 minutes a day.

I'll certainly never reach the heights of this skill but a bit of persistence to overcome lack of natural talent did propell me forward.

There is also the possibility they don't keep up with modern AI development at all and then this looks like any old spam that will stop in a few days (as it did).

Now whether it is wise to keep an old page which such outdated behavior online is another question.

Not every business venue needs to be a multi billion multi national and using some devices for a long time is better than burrying them all in a land fill.

The AI companies have already shown how little they care about other peoples intellectual property and they won't care about their customers either if it stands between them and the promises they made to their investors.

It's not even that expensive because even the 15€/month/employee bill for people who use AI very little can stack up.

Beside that though, many companies already have most if not all of their data in some cloud (Microsoft would be a prime example). Giving them a few extra bugs to get a (potentially) very useful tool is not out of the ordinary.

If you are under the impression that not going AI would threaten your business right now (which may very well be true for some companies) then there isn't really a choice even if you believe the vendors will steal everything eventually (which they totally will)

Unlimited tokens aka unlimited cost is something that not every use case needs.

They can and probably will still be very successful but what they pitched so far is not going to work if their is any meaningful competition not too far behind.

But who knows. VC money allows them to try a lot of stuff before their eventual IPO.

In addition to that there are extra fabs build and (for example) China can use the high margin to catch up with their processes without breaking the bank.

They have all that information already and could simply classify and pass it on without the need to encode it with a probability.

So if there is something being done we should choose a solution that has at least some accountability to the general public (through elected representatives).

The alternative is Google, Apple etc where almost anyone has exactly zero influence and the government can still block as they like.

While the engineering team might need a cutting edge model (with the associated costs), the marketing department will be fine by something that can grammar correct or turn a few bullet points into prose. Likewise you already don't need Fable for Ticket -> RAG -> Reply with Faq knowledge or escalate workflows

That's already the case with other very expensive software like CAD packages were oftentimes you have different feature sets enabled for different employees.

A sensible human operator would have given up or questioned their premises. The agent never could of course.