[sswatson]

All of these things can be true at the same time:

1. LLMs have been massively overhyped, including by some of the major players.

2. LLMs have significant problems and limitations.

3. LLMs can do some incredibly impressive things and can be profoundly useful for some applications.

I would go so far as to say that #2 and #3 are hardly even debatable at this point. Everyone acknowledges #2, and the only people I see denying #3 are people who either haven't investigated or are so annoyed by #1 that they're willing to sacrifice their credibility as an intellectually honest observer.

[absolutelastone]

#3 can be true and yet not be enough to make your case. Many failed technologies achieved impressive engineering milestones. Even the harshest critic could probably brainstorm some niche applications for a hallucination machine or whatever.