[elpocko]

I wish LLMs were generally viewed as Eliza on steroids, a thing to generate plausible sounding text with, in places where we used primitive generators based on Markov models before. To implement smarter NPCs in games, and virtual chat partners to talk to, just for fun. They are, after all, really fun to play with. They should be used as smart autocomplete in your IDE, not to generate whole projects from scratch. As an idea generator when you're stuck.

This requirement to be commercially useful and valuable, and to aid all kinds of businesses everywhere, gave a bad reputation to what is otherwise an amazing technological achievement. I am an outspoken AI enthusiast, because it is fun and interesting, but I hate how it is only seen as useful when it can do actual work like a human.