Cargo Cult AI
I once boarded a small 8 seater plane in Alaska and joked with the pilot if there would be an air-hostess serving drinks. He said no but he said he won&#x27;t weigh my luggage before it is put in the card.<p>A lot of LLM criticism is like that joke. People seem to complain too much about LLM not being what they want it to be without realizing that they are indeed much better than what we could have built 20 years ago.<p>If LLMs can be proven to add economic value that is good enough. They are in themselves useful with all their limitations. If they are profitable people will invest more in them and over time we will have better understanding of AGI and other aspects of intelligence.