[olalonde]

> I'm continually surprised by the amount of negativity

Maybe I'm just old, but to me, LLMs feel like magic. A decade ago, anyone predicting their future capabilities would have been laughed at.

[Towaway69]

Magic Makes Money - the more magical something seems, the more people are willing to pay for that something.

The discussion here seems to bare this out: CEO claims AI is magical, here the truth becomes that it’s just an auto-complete engine.

[guappa]

Nah, you just were not up to speed with the current research. Which is completely normal. Now marketing departments are on the job.

[davedx]

Transformers were proposed in 2017. A decade ago none of this was predictable.

[guappa]

emacs psichologist was there from before :D

And so were a lot of markov chain based chatbots. Also Doretta, the microsoft AI/search engine chatbot.

Were they as good? No. Is this an iteration of those? Absolutely.

[protomolecule]

Kurzweil would disagree)