What we know about LLMs
ChatGPT was announced November, 2022 - 8 months ago. Time flies.<p>Question for HN: Where are we in the hype cycle on this?<p>We can run shitty clones slowly on Raspberry Pi's and your phone. The educational implementations demonstrate the basics in under a thousand lines of brisk C. Great. At some point you have to wonder... well, so what?<p>Not one killer app has emerged. I for one am eager to be all hip and open minded and pretend like I use LLMs all the time for everything and they are "the future" but novelty aside it seems like so far we have a demented clippy and some sophomoric arguments about alignment and wrong think.<p>It did generate a whole lot of breathless click-bait-y articles and gave people something to blab about. Ironically it also accelerated the value of that sort of gab and clicks towards zero.<p>As I am not a VC, politician, or opportunist, hand waving and telling me this is Frankenstein's monster about to come alive and therefore I need billions of dollars or "regulations" just makes folks sound like the crypto scammers.<p>Please HN, say something actually insightful, I beg you.