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But what proportion of the market are they? I don’t expect anyone knows, but consider that Apple has purpose built ANN circuitry in every CPU they sell, or consider the revenue Nvidia is making selling H100s. My guess is that is a bigger slice of the pie than the shady vendors.

>>mr_toa+(OP)
I don't think anyone was criticizing "AI" when M1 came out, or when such applications were given to Google Pixel to improve camera stuff or whatever.

The issue is that this LLM boom, coinciding with the crypto-bro crash, has caused a lot of scammers to pivot out of cryptocoins and into AI.

There's a real subset of R&D happening with AI no doubt. But keep your guard up, there's also a flood of cryptobros who have lost everything after FTX who are trying to pivot into another field. That's all that I'm saying.