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>>tablet+(OP)
Who are these friends? Are they in the room with us right now? Look, maybe my experience is atypical but I’m an AI skeptic and I know plenty of others. I’ve never heard people claim that LLMs are a fad or going to go away.

I’ve seen lots of people:

* think that conflating LLMs and “AI” produces a lot of poorly reasoned arguments

* doubt the economic narratives being built around LLM technology

* think the current rate of progress in the technology is basically flat

* think most “AI companies” resemble most crypto companies

An addendum to the last point: very few crypto skeptics deny that BitCoin is a thing or think it’s going away, either. It’s just strawmanning.

>>moomin+P41
Not all hype is just hot air.

Case in point: WWW and the “dot com” bubble. Dot com was a bubble, but the WWW (and Internet) was a big thing that transformed all major societies. It survived the bust that followed after the boom.

Are LLMs here to stay? We can guess, but as usual, time will tell.