LLM’s have now had a pretty decently long period of proving their worth. Which turned out to be very limited in scope and depth, at least compared to the promises given beforehand.

For example, it was predicted that it would be able to write and inject code into itself, generate data to train on for itself, not need any/minimal human intervention to do so. This clearly is impossible.

As a tool for people to use natural language to interact with software, it’s proving to be quite effective.

As a tool for accurate dissemination of factual information it isn’t reliable at all. And can’t be made reliable, LLM’S are at least incapable of reliability at a fundamental level. As language in itself is a subjective human invention we describe the objective reality with, the objective reality is only known through perception. A LLM doesn’t in fact perceive anything, it’s not alive. So fundamentally LLMs can’t know if they are actually being factual, this requires something more than language.

People who peddle AI bs, don’t know, or wish to remain ignorant about, the fundamental limitations of language.