It's not ridiculous at all. The pace of AI development was greatest 5 years ago when we managed to get BERT and GPT-2 running with little prior art. Today's "progress" involves either scaling up contemporary models or hacking the old ones to behave less erratically. We are not solving the reliability and explainability issues inherent to AI. We're not getting them to tell the truth, we can't get them to be smarter than a human and we can't even manage to make real efficiency strides.
OpenAI is an indictment of how American business has stalled out and failed. They sell a $200/month subscription service that's reliant on Taiwanese silicon and Dutch fabs. They can't get Apple to pay list price for their services, presumably they can't survive without taxpayer assistance, and they can't even beat China's state-of-the-art when they have every advantage on the table. Even Intel has less pathetic leadership in 2025.
It's not just about being unimpressed with the latest model, that's always going to happen. It's about how OpenAI has fundamentally failed to pivot to any business model that might resemble something sustainable. Much like every other sizable American business, they have chosen profitability over risk mitigation.
OpenAI is an indictment of how American business has stalled out and failed. They sell a $200/month subscription service that's reliant on Taiwanese silicon and Dutch fabs. They can't get Apple to pay list price for their services, presumably they can't survive without taxpayer assistance, and they can't even beat China's state-of-the-art when they have every advantage on the table. Even Intel has less pathetic leadership in 2025.
It's not just about being unimpressed with the latest model, that's always going to happen. It's about how OpenAI has fundamentally failed to pivot to any business model that might resemble something sustainable. Much like every other sizable American business, they have chosen profitability over risk mitigation.