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The real answer:
companies put billions into the AI craze hoping to achieve AGI and 'winning' the race to stop the open internet from existing, and capturing every user into their controlled bubble.
Now that the reality of LLMs not being able to deliver that, they need to find some excuse to explain why that was not a dumb investment.
The real real answer:
Companies don't care whether AGI is ever achieved. All that matters to them is to look hype and fresh enough that investors think they will the AI race.
Large companies don't care about the product, they don't care about the customer, they don't even care about whether they will ever make money. They are just a horse to bet on for investors, so all they care about is looking good in a way that investors dump their money into the company.
It's nothing else than NFTs but for people with actually serious money.
Oh but if they could create an assistant that would do 100% of tech interactions with you, from web searches to shopping to communication, they would capture the entire globe by the balls forever.
And that is a sweet deal. I expect OpenAI to start selling ad slots in their responses, just because they already are a brand name and most people don't use other bots. And I expect it to spread everywhere.
My hope for humanity has fallen so low, that I expect people to just accept it all.