[codegangsta]

I think there are multiple conversations happening that are tying to converge on one.

On one hand, LLMs are overhyped and not delivering on promises made by their biggest advocates.

On the other hand, any other type of technology (not so overhyped) would be massively celebrated in significantly improving a subset of niche problems.

It’s worth acknowledging that LLMs do solve a good set of problems well, while also being overhyped as a silver bullet by folks who are generally really excited about its potential.

Reality is that none of us know what the future is, and whether LLMs will have enough breakthroughs to solve more problems then today, but what they do solve today is still very impressive as is.

[janalsncm]

Yes, exactly. There is a bell curve of hype, where some people think autoregressive decoders will lead us to AGI if we just give it the right prompt or perhaps a trillion dollars of compute. And there are others who haven’t even heard of ChatGPT. Depending on which slice of the population you’re interacting with, it’s either under or over hyped.