Thing is, there will always be morons. LLMs are just the latest thing to be moronic about. That's why I really don't appreciate these downer articles very much. I think LLMs are awesome and they've now become a part of my everyday life, but it's a little much to say they're the "holy grail."
At the same time, ChatGPT does deserve hype. It's an achievement that we've essentially invented the ship's computer from Star Trek, and have it available for free or at an affordable price to everyone. When people reduce ChatGPT down to little more than statistics, I don't think they actually understand the technology or cognition at even a basic level, and a lot of the critiques towards ChatGPT come off as butthurtedness.
Thing is, there will always be morons. LLMs are just the latest thing to be moronic about. That's why I really don't appreciate these downer articles very much. I think LLMs are awesome and they've now become a part of my everyday life, but it's a little much to say they're the "holy grail."
At the same time, ChatGPT does deserve hype. It's an achievement that we've essentially invented the ship's computer from Star Trek, and have it available for free or at an affordable price to everyone. When people reduce ChatGPT down to little more than statistics, I don't think they actually understand the technology or cognition at even a basic level, and a lot of the critiques towards ChatGPT come off as butthurtedness.