“Even if the AI boom turns out to be an AI bubble, the LLMs aren’t going anywhere,” the Guardian’s UK technology editor, Alex Hern, tells Michael Safi.

“Whether or not OpenAI goes bust, whether or not Google and Microsoft’s valuations plummet back to the ground, there is this technology that was created. They may go bust, but that doesn’t mean we’re back to the world we were in in 2020, for good and for ill.”

Alex explains the numerous hurdles AI companies have faced in recent months, from the financial concerns to hardware shortages, from software limits to legal challenges. What do these issues mean for the potential of AI?

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