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When was the last time that a hype of this magnitude blew every other conversational topic away? Something is being transformed all right, the interesting question is how long it will last.

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My guess is when enough LLM tools have been created for various use cases, until the insurmountable flaws of their nature are finally broadly realized (of course not implying there's no usefulness to them).

Agreed. And if this fad lasts long enough for future generations to remember, they'll make fun of us for calling it “AI”. It's the equivalent of believing in the existence of witches and devils. It may be explainable in light of the standards of the time, but it still makes us look, er, unintelligent.

Over the past 3+ years we seemed to be on one hyper sensational train after another, mrna was transforming medicine and making every other vaccine obsolete, Ukraine was defeating a super power in 3 months, now AI is taking over every job on the planet.

The Great Narrative is in full swing, spoilers it's all bullshit.

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