[D] What is the future for ML researchers and startups?

With the advent of LLMs, multimodality and “general purpose” AIs which seat on unimaginable amounts money, computing power and data.
I’m graduating and want to start a PHD, but feel quite disheartened given the huge results obtained simply by “brute-forcing” and by the ever-growing hype in machine learning that could result in a bubble of data scientists, ML researchers and so on.

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