Everyone is wrongly conflating AI success with data centers, endless cloud surveillance data gathering and LLMs to produce generative chat slop in the utopian/dystopian impossible goal of creating AGI. It's dumb, extremely costly with a lot of collateral damage and will not result in positive ROI, much less the stated goal. Edge computing, mesh networks, and decentralized "narrow" AI is where it's at. That is what the Department of War is investing in, and betting literally everything on for future wars. It will be like the nervous system of our entire military. Only special interest grifters are focusing on what LLM the DoW is using or not using for the same sort of stupid white collar tasks as corporate American is trying to use LLMs for.
