> I don’t understand this perspective. It should be abundantly clear at this point that these systems are quite useful for a variety of applications.

LLM are polyvalent. But in most of the tasks they are not the most efficient way to do the task.

Want to play chess ? Use Stockfish or Leela. Want to do image recognition ? SAM or TinyViT like models. Want to know if your are sick ? Go to the doctor or at least do a search on the web.

Yes, there is tasks where LLM are perfect for (speech analysis/classification for example). But omnipotent chatbot isn't one for example.

If there were a revolutionary use, we would have a productivity boom. We don't. This article is from 2021: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/10/1026008/the-comi...