In this episode, we sit down with Sam Cummings, Director of Education at Gen AI Works, as he explores the current and future landscape of large language models (LLMs) and their impact on cybersecurity. Sam unpacks the technical and economic limitations of LLMs, highlighting issues such as model cost, scalability, hallucination, and the looming challenges around reasoning and memory management. The conversation delves into the shift from universal LLMs to specialized models, the inevitability of market monopolization by big tech firms, and the environmental cost of massive data centers. Sam also paints a vivid picture of the “arms race” in the cybersecurity sector, predicting a boom in both offensive and ...