LLMs are interesting, and there are some very promising applications, but I’m concerned that the hype is going to damage the reputation of the technology in a way that could interfere with those things.

Regarding all other AI, there’s a lot of good that has come from AI research, and most people don’t recognize it. We have a tendency to shift our definition of “intelligence” to always exclude things that someone figures out how to get a computer to do.

Every day we use software that would have been considered AI years ago.

I’m not against AI, but I’m against the capitalist impulse to squeeze money out of anything to the detriment of all of humanity and the world.

My hope is that the LLM bubble bursts, big companies suffer terribly, the “AI” tag becomes bad marketing, and they let AI quietly return to research, where people can do some good with it.