AI Value Creators

Chapter 7. Where This Technology Is Headed—One Model Will Not Rule Them All!

Can you place this mantra?

“One Ring to rule them all,

One Ring to find them,

One Ring to bring them all,

and in the darkness bind them.”

If you’re a true Tolkienite nerd, your elf ears likely perked up; otherwise, we’ll tell you it’s the basis of the story for J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic Lord of the Rings and this One Ring inscription gives its wearer the ability to control everything. (Purists will note it wasn’t the inscription that bestowed the power and then go on about Sauron, but we’ll leave it there; like we said, nerds.) Total domination. Putting all the evil aside, one question looms (likely due to the fanfare around ChatGPT that introduced the world to GenAI): will one single LLM rule them all?

Spoiler alert: we don’t think so at all. Not even close. As you learned earlier in this book, there are almost 1.5 million (it’s likely more by the time you read this book) models on Hugging Face alone. We’re also certain (assuming you’ve read the book linearly so far) that you can easily articulate the difference between Value Users and Value Creators, and you understand AI ethics and data lineage. In short, you understand why one model can’t possibly rule them all...but we’re going to pull a more complete answer to the why for you here. It starts with the fact that even in the AI labs pushing out the highest-performing frontier models, we are seeing shifts from innovating on a single model performing ...