[cpeth]

In terms of impact, LLMs might be the biggest leap forward in computing history, surpassing the internet and mobile computing. And we are just at the dawn of it. Even if not full AGI, computers can now understand humans and reason. The excitement is justified.

[MrVandemar]

Nah. LLM's are hype-machines capable of writing their own hype.

Q: What's the difference between a car salesman and an LLM?

A: The car salesman knows they're lying to you.

[MVissers]

Who says the LLM’s don’t know?

Testing with GPT-4 showed that they were clearly capable of knowingly lying.

[SamPatt]

Nonsense. I was a semi-technical writer who went from only making static websites to building fully interactive Javascript apps in a few weeks when I first got ChatGPT. I enjoyed it so much I'm now switching careers into software development.

GPT-4 is the best tutor and troubleshooter I've ever had. If it's not useful to you then I'm guessing you're either using it wrong or you're never trying anything new / challenging.

[cthalupa]

'Understand' and 'reason' are pretty loaded terms.

I think many people would disagree with you that LLMs can truly do either.