AI-skeptical discourse is starting to feel a bit like the Black Knight scene from Holy Grail. The Stochastic Parrots paper called LLMs “misdirected research effort” in 2020. Anyone want to reconsider that a few models later in 2022? “Nope: ‘tis but a scratch! deep learning is hitting a wall” (2022). Sure, fine. But now in 2024, with huge investment in foundation models across video and audio, is it time to revisit priors? “Nay, have at you, it’s only a flesh wound!”
