LLM’s have now had a pretty decently long period of proving their worth. Which turned out to be very limited in scope and depth, at least compared to the promises given beforehand.
For example, it was predicted that it would be able to write and inject code into itself, generate data to train on for itself, not need any/minimal human intervention to do so. This clearly is impossible.
As a tool for people to use natural language to interact with software, it’s proving to be quite effective.
As a tool for accurate dissemination of factual information it isn’t reliable at all. And can’t be made reliable, LLM’S are at least incapable of reliability at a fundamental level. As language in itself is a subjective human invention we describe the objective reality with, the objective reality is only known through perception. A LLM doesn’t in fact perceive anything, it’s not alive. So fundamentally LLMs can’t know if they are actually being factual, this requires something more than language.
People who peddle AI bs, don’t know, or wish to remain ignorant about, the fundamental limitations of language.




Maybe skip the fortune teller career.
The people who are peddling AI are exactly the people who would actually do all these things if they could get away with it. Most of them already do a lot of shit exactly like your evil AI already. Why do you think you have such a negative view on the future of AI?
Secondly, AI, as it currently stands as LLM and the broader token based AI. Are fundamentally incapable of everything you are saying. So, I’m not saying that they could reach high levels of intelligence in the future. I’m saying that the limits of the technology are prohibiting any form of actual self awareness. And evidently so, as they lack perception and the capacity to experience, as well as mental experience itself.
Thirdly, this is not just a fundamental problem for AI but a fundamental problem in general. And why that self awareness isn’t ascribed to the animals you eat, even though they are clearly and obviously showing signs of intelligence, awareness, perception and complex language beyond our comprehension. But AI is assumed standard access to awareness, perception, subjective experience without apprehension.
It’s the world upside down. And maybe it’s just that as soon as we imagine something non human perceives humanity, that for sure they will treat us exactly like the way we treat animals. That there are no redeeming qualities and nothing to be gained by letting us be humans.