Love or hate just please explain why. This isn’t my area of expertise so I’d love to hear your opinions, especially if you’re particularly well versed or involved. If you have any literature, studies or websites let me know.

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    3 days ago

    They are guessing machines, predicting the next token. At best it’s equivalent to the language center of the brain, but it still needs many capabilities like logical reasoning to weight and evaluate different actions and outcomes wrt values or goals to not just mimic the behavior of thinking agents. It’s one of many steps in a long line of experimentation and engineering building towards AGI but we still have no idea how close it really is, maybe 10 years, 50 years, 500 years, etc. They are useful for specific tasks like a hammer or newspaper or search engine, but because of all the fear based investing to not miss the next big thing people with more money than brains invested heavily without understanding the limitations or actually capabilities of the technology.