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People are capable of having really deep conversations with ELIZA (program which just asked questions about things you said). I think there's a kind of "ooh it's language it must be clever" which I think is mistaking the symptom for the effect.

I'm not denying that the large language models may have some (marginal) utility, I'm saying that they're not going to magically turn into Skynet, no matter how much people dream.

I suspect they are not going to have as many applications as people claim: we are a few years in now and we see that the applications are trailing WAY behind the huge level of investment into building datacenter infrastructure. There's some good stuff in FT AlphaVille about this.