## Oh Joy, Another “Revolution” in AI
Right. Just *fantastic*. Because apparently we needed yet another Large Language Model (LLM) to grace our digital lives. Seriously? As if my inbox wasn’t already overflowing with “groundbreaking” software promising to change everything and deliver us all to a utopian future of effortless productivity. Now we have *this*. A 3.12 billion parameter…thing. Because the number itself is just so reassuring, isn’t it? Like the more parameters something has, the more likely it is to solve world hunger.
The press releases are positively *glowing*, naturally. “State-of-the-art!” they shriek. “Open and accessible!” they proclaim. Accessible for whom, exactly? For researchers with server farms in their basements and a burning desire to tweak yet another vaguely conversational chatbot? Because I’m pretty sure my average user isn’t going to be wrestling with model weights any time soon. They just want it to reliably tell them the weather without hallucinating about alien invasions.
And don’t even get me started on the “open” part. Open until they decide it’s not, I presume? Open until someone figures out how to weaponize its ability to generate convincingly plausible nonsense and then suddenly “security concerns” arise? We’ve seen this song and dance before.
Honestly, at this point, these announcements feel like meticulously planned distractions. Like watching a particularly energetic squirrel chase its tail while the world quietly burns. I’m sure it’s *brilliant*, truly. It probably can write sonnets in Klingon or whatever. But is it going to make my life easier? Is it going to alleviate existential dread? Probably not. Just another shiny object for us to briefly marvel at before promptly forgetting about, while waiting for the *next* earth-shattering breakthrough that promises absolutely nothing.
Just…lovely.
