I’ve been on PTO for the past two weeks to recharge and I am feeling energized to go back to work tomorrow. Part of this is getting the rest I’ve needed and spending time on my hobbies. But another part of this is the massive shift in public opinion on LLMs and their usefulness. I thought LLMs were a dead-end tech and not a path to true AGI (Artificial Generalized Intelligence - the holy grail of computer science) around 2023 or 2024, so seeing the entire industry be fully onboard with this tech has been very demoralizing. It has done nothing but take up space from real research that could be happening. I used to love reading Hacker News every day to expand my knowledge, but the majority of the content the past few years have just been “how you can better utilize LLMs”. So let’s start by talking about the problems with them.
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