I think the next step in AI is learning how to control and direct the speech, rather than just make computers talk.
They are surprisingly good for being a mere statistical copycat of words on the internet. Whatever the second tier innovation is that jumps AI into true reasoning rather than pattern matching is going to be wild.
If bitnet takes off, that’s very good news for everyone.
The problem isn’t AI, it’s AI that’s so intensive to host that only corporations with big datacenters can do it.