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I hate the greedy cynical corporations behind LLMs, and I hate the hype bubble, and I hate my stupid bosses and their AI FOMO. But I don't hate AI. It's a broad concept much bigger than chat bots. Hurricane modeling AI is damned good, for one example.
Pressure to shove LLMs into everything because it convinced a bunch of vapid know-nothing middle managers and C-suite knobs it was “alive” and that their stock options would skyrocket has unfortunately poisoned the well of “AI”.
But yes, purpose-built ML models that are amazing and useful. And almost no one, in the grand scheme of things, is using them.
The funny thing is, LLMs can be useful for exactly one thing: certain kinds of linguistic tasks. For example, if you were inventing a fictional language, it's probably pretty good for that.
But using it as a general-purpose problem solving tool is beyond stupid.
They used them to play chess on kaggle, then the press reported the winner 😂
The obsession is so baffling to anyone who's worked in ML (including language model researchers!)