my prediction for the future of "AI"*-as-a-service is that by the time it gets good enough to be really useful it's also going to cost so much to run that it will be impossible to make profitable
*large language models
you likely already know, but for the audience: the goal of every corporation now is business-to-business sales, with it's consumer products largely being there to advertise that it exists to the people who would buy it.
when your client has infinite money and never checks the bill, well.
