Are NLP based AI skills useless?

So something's been on my mind recently and I wanted to get Reddit's thoughts.

The thing that is troubling me as I get deeper, is it seems that for a lot of language based NLP tasks, ChatGPT or these other foundation models seem SOTA for 99% of tasks. In terms of developing valuable skills and products, it feels like the two options are:

1. Research and training foundation models at large research labs

2. Using GPT APIs in some sort …

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