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It's quite useful and fun to play with. Certainly not reaching AGI from scale alone...
I think we're reaching the top of the S-curve with regards to LLMs specifically. They're a neat gimmick and likely will have an important role to play, but I don't think they're going to meet the (completely artificial and grifty) hype Altman et al have been slinging.
Which was pretty easily predicted, but no one knew for sure. Such financial-class leeches always feed on unfulfilled hopes, and sell dreams of the future.
It's fun to play with for like 5 minutes.
They're good enough to act as natural language translators which is an absolute revolution for computers so they're useful for automating some tasks that are too fuzzy or vague for basic programs.
This is what I've found among a lot of professionals when asked about AI. Every task it does could be easily done by anyone with enough domain knowledge and moderate scripting ability. It just cuts out the need to learn a CLI and scripting language in exchange for lack of scalability or efficiency, plus has more domain knowledge sets than any one person (though not too deeply).
E.G. It is often used as a poor man's awk or perl for analyzing emails. But for a lot of people being able to scan 10000 documents, find all references to a soft regex and tabulate them is something they genuinely couldn't do on their own before "AI". Nevermind that you hand that problem to any sysadmin worth their salt and they probably already have an alias for it. Not surprising when you realize that the average person thinks that Penelope Garcia is an accurate aepiction of how such tasks are done and think such abilities are so far beyond teir own capabilities.