It's not really a dream though? You can subscribe to their AI right now and complete many tasks for cheaper than it would cost to pay a human to do those tasks. Another person can do the same thing but also keep a human in the loop. You and the other person may compete in the market for whatever your product or service is, and you both might do very well or one of you might do better than the other because of a whole host of different reasons. Nothing in the process of developing and selling access to a more advanced LLM requires the customers to do away with human labor, nor does it require them to offer the LLM service with a guarantee that it will never make any mistakes. So far the LLMs have always made lots of mistakes and the companies sure keep making a lot of money.
Right now I think it's still a dream for a few reasons, not the least of which is that all of this goes to shite if you have mass unemployment in a country with more firearms than people legally allowed to own them, a plurality of the population that treats wealth as an indication of personal virtue, and an elite that more-or-less refuses to offer any further evolution of the social safety net past what it was in 1970.
> Nothing in the process of developing and selling access to a more advanced LLM requires the customers to do away with human labor,
That's the hook, though. You acknowledge this yourself:
> You can subscribe to their AI right now and complete many tasks for cheaper than it would cost to pay a human to do those tasks
Businesses exist primarily to make money. It's an iron-clad rule that one must spend money to make money. If they have to spend less on humans to make the same amount of money, they'll do it. Furthermore, AI providers (especially hyper-scaling frontier model providers like Anthropic and OpenAI with insane operating costs) have every incentive to keep the price of their service as close as possible to the cost of the human. Ideally for them, you replace the human that cost $100,000.00 to employ by paying for a subscription that costs $99,999.99 while making the same revenues.
> So far the LLMs have always made lots of mistakes and the companies sure keep making a lot of money.
The clients, sort of. I know my team's velocity has increased. You can screw up with LLMs, like you say. OpenAI and Anthropic? lol no, they're massive furnaces for money, and will be until they can charge that $99,999.99.
