“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value
@baldur "generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value" is the perfect summary for all of this inconceivably surreal and sad story. It simply captures the entirety of the argument perfectly.
Very nicely put!