I fear people will start taking the beautiful and profound for granted, it'll just be content.
But it just feels like humanity secedes more and more ground & understanding to humanity each month, and there's so few visible notable frontiers where humanity is staking down real wins. Rather than have advances in general purpose computing, we keep getting more and more apps, more and more far-off cloud systems.
That depends on your prompt. You can make it longer if you have more to say. It's a conditional language model, you can select the place it starts from and how to go. But you can't blame it for bad prompts.
Instead of seeing LLM as "nothing there, just token probabilities", I'd rather see it as a distillation of human culture. It's like a mirror house with infinite reflexions and complexities. A place to contemplate, a microscope where you can study something in detail, a simulator where you can deploy experiments.
> but there's nothing a machine puts into this
What makes you so sure?
What makes you think a machine has any wants and desires?