If the world could just internalize this simple fact - it's a search engine of all of the knowledge it has ingested, with a human-language interface (and quite a good one at that). It doesn't think. It isn't intelligence. Calling it "AI" from the beginning was a grift from the companies developing the tech.

Since late 2022, I've used LLMs extensively for coding, copywriting, research, and everything in between and I've slowly gone from "this is amazing" to "this is extremely useful but probably extremely overhyped" to "this might not actually be all that useful at all". Where accuracy matters, fact checking these things takes as much time as just doing the work manually. I think its most useful application is as a tool for spammers and bots, and that doesn't exactly bode well for the companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the tech.