It sort of makes you wonder if we&#x27;re looking at a future where something like 5 teams composed of 1000 of the top researchers each are going to build the premier ML systems, and those teams can then solve most generalized ML tasks.<p>Most other programmers wouldn&#x27;t be able to contribute much value in a world that worked like this.<p>This perhaps mirrors how the chip market works, which similarly involves a limited number of researchers involved in advanced manufacturing techniques that are highly specialized and mostly a mystery to other people in the technology field.