I think the multi-model world proposed by Le-Cunn is the way forward.

but now the world is blind due to incentives of wanting LLMs to work even if they spew bullshit 50% of the time.

once A.I either from self-driving cars, or in-house robotics becomes really prevalent then I will know we are in the A.I era.

Agreed, it's really annoying. Though this is nothing new for the human race.