You should also be reminded about the internet. After the dotcom bubble it was extremely common to hear it outright dismissed as never being useful for anything.
Sometimes the future just gets here before we're ready for it.
Repeat after me: An LLM is not AI. The internet enabled a whole new world of possible applications. It's unlikely this or even the next upgrade to ML will get there. If we get to AGI, sure, that's grpund-breaking, but we're still a few steps removed from that.
Repeat after me: "AI hype" is not like Bitcoin hype, it's like Dot-com boom.
Generative models are already changing how people live and work. Ignore the grifters, and ignore the entrepreneurs. Look at civilians, regular folks, and watch how it impacts them.
I see you saying this all over this topic and yet I don't know anyone who uses AI for anything real. I've never used it once for anything, and I work in tech. The only people I know who use AI are kids who use it to do their homework for them. I'm sure they love it, but it's hardly a good thing.
It's like hiring someone to go to the gym for you, as far as I can see.
To be fair to Bitcoin, the world's largest economic bloc is actively building an alternative to USD/Western banks for international settlements, with blockchain technology.
It doesn't have anything to do with the libertarian vision of BTC but it's the same technical concept.
> They are more intelligent than the average person I deal with on a daily basis.
No they aren't. They are differently intelligent. Which includes being more "intelligent" in some ways, and vastly less in others.
It is an all too common mistake to infer an LLM's capability based on what it would mean if a human could produce the same output. But it's not the same thing at all. A human that could produce the quality of many LLM outputs I've seen would be a person with superintelligence (and supercreativity, for that matter). But a human who is constrained to only the output that an LLM is capable of would be an untrustworthy idiot.
What's interesting to me is looking at the human+LLM combos that have recently entered the world. (As in, everyone who is regularly using good quality LLMs.) What are they capable of? Hopefully they'll be at least as intelligent as a regular human, though some of the articles on people blindly accepting LLM hallucinations do make me wonder.
Sometimes the future just gets here before we're ready for it.