OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster 3 years ago
I think the answer is Money, Money, Money. Sure it is 1000000000x more expensive in compute power, and error prown on top as well, to let a LLM solve an easy Problem. But the Monopolies generate a lot of hype around it to get more money from investors. Same as the self driving car hype was. Or the real time raytracing insanity in computer graphics. If one hype dies they artificially generate a new one. For me, I just watch all the ships sink to the ground. It is gold level comedy. Btw AGI is coming, haha, sure, we developers will be replaced by an script which can not bring B, A, C in a logical sequence. And this already needs massive town size data centers to train.