[datathrow0007]

Yes, but that would require academics to grow a practical bone in their body and realize "understanding" language is just one piece of the "intelligence puzzle."

The hype will die down on LLMs (slowly... all those ML researchers need to justify the sunk-cost of specializing into a very niche, albeit sales-friendly, field).

If it's any consolation, I doubt we'll see progress towards a "technological singularity" until the current crop of career scientists retire into the dirt -- or there is a fundamental change in resource allocation allowing other, more creative types to start experimenting with building out a probabilistic model for:

Human language in -> determination of "what to do"/workflow to run -> run

We're seeing a few startups in this area, but I haven't seen anyone create any useful agent.