Are LLMs just a ploy to ease recession hit?

I saw someone post on Twitter the other day a conversation where they asked ChatGPT for recipe ideas for turkey and stuffing with things he could buy at a Trader Joe's in New York.

To summarize the conversation, it basically came back with tacos with turkey and filling, quesadillas with turkey and filling, burritos with turkey and filling, etc.

The person concluded that it was "amazing" and he was headed out the door to Trader Joe's.

I find this kind of false enthusiasm strange and I struggle to understand the motivation to pretend something is useful other than to feel like you are on the same side as the next big thing.

I continue to believe that for a confluence of reasons we are in an era of extreme credulity and that people believe in every new idea with plenty of opportunists to capitalize on it. I think GPU's are at the center of it and every time they cross a performance threshold new use cases emerge very few of which seem to really find product market fit.

I do think when it's all said and done it's going to be great- there will be an enormous excess of powerful chips with nobody to use them and research costs will nosedive. Research should not be solely in the hands of people with the most wealthy backers.

Or another confidence trick on display to fool VCs that these so-called AI startups or ChatGPT wrappers have a chance in surviving this post-cheap money era.

I give it 5 years and we will see consolidation once again with the better funded AI companies out there that have private data and research to their name.

Are you asking if most AI startup founders decided to start their companies (and dedicate years of their life) in order to "ease the recession hit"?

I can assure you that's not a frequent motivation to start any kind of startup.