It's inevitable because it's here. LLMs aren't the "future" anymore, they're the present. They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. People have been trying to do that for decades. The future probably holds even bigger things, but even if it plateaus for a while, showing real ability to defeat traditional search is a crazy start and just one example.

> They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet.

Hardly. Google is at the frontier of these developments, and has enough resources to be a market leader. Trillion-dollar corporations have the best chances of reaping the benefits of this technology.

Besides, these tools can't be relied on as a source of factual information. Filtering spam and junk from web search results requires the same critical thinking as filtering LLM hallucinations and biases. The worst of both worlds is when "agents" summarize junk from the web.

It's ironic that you picked that example given that LLMs are simultaneously turning the internet into a vast ocean of useless AI generated garbage.

General web search will soon be a completely meaningless concept.

Debating whether LLM is future is like debating whether online advertising is future. We've long, long passed that point. It's present, and it's not going to magically go away.

Is online advertising good for the society? Probably not.

Can you use ad blockers? Yes.

Can you avoid putting ads on your personal website? Yes.

All of these are irrelevant in the context of "inevitabilism." Online advertising happened. So did LLM.