[voidhorse]

Couldn't agree more. I look forward to the other side of this current craze where we actually have reasonable language around what these machines are best for.

On a more general level, I also never understood this urge to build machines that are "just like us". Like you I want machines that, arguably, are best characterized by the ways in which they are not like us—more reliable, more precise, serving a specific function. It's telling that critiques of the failures of LLMs are often met with "humans have the same problems"—why are humans the bar? We have plenty of humans. We don't need more humans. If we're investing so much time and energy, shouldn't the bar be bette than humans? And if it isn't, why isn't it? Oh, right it's because actually human error is good enough and the actual benefit of these tools is that they are humans that can work without break, don't have autonomy, and that you don't need to listen to or pay. The main beneficiaries of this path are capital owners who just want free labor. That's literally all this is. People who actually want to build stuff want precision machines that are tailored for the task at hand, not some grab bag of sort of works sometimes stochastic doohickeys.