Eh, I see far more "AI is the second coming of Jesus" type of comments than healthy skepticism. A lot of anxiety from people afraid that their source of income will dry and a lot of excitement of people with an axe to grind that "those entitled expensive peasants will get what they deserve".

I think I count myself among the skeptics nowadays for that reason. And I say this as someone that thinks LLM is an interesting piece of technology, but with somewhat limited use and unclear economics.

If the hype was about "look at this thing that can parse natural language surprisingly well and generate coherent responses", I would be excited too. As someone that had to do natural language processing in the past, that is a damn hard task to solve, and LLMs excel at it.

But that is not the hype is it? We have people beating the drums of how this is just shy of taking the world by storm, and AGI is just around the corner, and it will revolutionize all economy and society and nothing will ever be the same.

So, yeah, it gets tiresome. I wish the hype would die down a little so this could be appreciated for what it is.