Nobody should 'focus on AI', everybody should keep it back of mind as a potentially useful tool for whatever they try to do.
(I won't even make OpenAI et al. an exception, it just happens to be obviously the right tool. If sufficiently educated Mechanical Turkers looking through Wikipedia etc. and typing responses was cheaper than LLMs they should do that for 'ChatGPT'.)
A nice side effect then is that the huge variation in what's 'AI' (from logic & linear regression through generative NN video) doesn't seem so absurd, it's just a bundle of tools, of course there's a variety.
(I won't even make OpenAI et al. an exception, it just happens to be obviously the right tool. If sufficiently educated Mechanical Turkers looking through Wikipedia etc. and typing responses was cheaper than LLMs they should do that for 'ChatGPT'.)
A nice side effect then is that the huge variation in what's 'AI' (from logic & linear regression through generative NN video) doesn't seem so absurd, it's just a bundle of tools, of course there's a variety.