Ok, but what will the net effects be? Technology can be extremely impressive on a technical level, but harmful in practical terms.
So far the biggest usecase for LLMs is mass propaganda and scams. The fact that we might also get AI girlfriends out of the tech understandly doesn't seem that appealing to a lot of folks.
this is a different thesis than "AI is basically bullshit astrology", so i'm not disagreeing with you.
Understanding atomic energy gave us both emission-free energy and the atomic, and you are correct that we can't necessarily where the path of AI will take us.
