‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation” - maybe old news, but I haven’t seen it mentioned here... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/02/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-quits-google-warns-dangers-of-machine-learning

It’s not can, it’s will, and it’s not will, they are. We’ve already got professionals and students alike writing papers, doing science, and pushing their work and the language models simultaneously. It’s the fastest paced directly-driven tech growth I’ve ever experience. And the likes of Google, Apple, the rest of the normal culprits don’t like not being the gatekeepers of “top billed” software. There was a “leak” (pronounced “pr approved for reproduction memo”) by google that touches this too: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither