“No amount of beating off about test-time compute and connecting Large Language Models to other Large Language Models is going to create a new use case for this technology, and even if it did, it’s unlikely that it ever makes enough money to make it profitable.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Test-time compute and chaining LLMs will not create new use cases, and even if they did, the technology is unlikely ever to be profitable.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, There Is No AI Revolution, paragraph 190.
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- Evidence
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- Assessment recorded
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
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Not checked against evidence. Two independent screens, one from each provider, both found that evidence could not settle it: one found it too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers; the other found it stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
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: Where's Your Ed At, There Is No AI Revolution
No amount of beating off about test-time compute and connecting Large Language Models to other Large Language Models is going to create a new use case for this technology, and even if it did, it’s unlikely that it ever makes enough money to make it profitable.
- Where
- paragraph 190
- Published
- 2025-02-24
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-wheres-the-money-d3f1bc-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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