I know 0. And i work in tech lol.
I don't hear anything from people I actually know who are exposed to this stuff being like, "Oh my God, this has massively improved my life and I can't live without it!" No its stuff like, "How do I uninstall Siri off my iPhone? It doesn't work right anymore and can't understand me, and keeps turning itself back on when there is an iOS update."
I don't think any amount of marketing is going to change the fact that the service doesn't work and isn't up to user expectations.
It's undercooked and now its too late to put it back in the oven, so to speak.
And siri has been junk for years too. Not sure what LLM’s have to do with that. Siri activates via a machine learning model that runs on device, which listens for a “wake word”, and that tech has been around for 10 years at this point. It’s possible apple messed up their machine learning model in a recent update? Idk :) But that’s unrelated to LLM’s.
I agree hype has gone out of control! the tech companies are over-promising. Expectations are too high, like you said. That doesn’t mean LLM’s are useless like crypto though. It’s early days still. Crypto is not useful to _any_ normal person, unless you live in a handful of countries with crazy inflation, or you’re a crypto nerd, or you’re trying to move dirty money around.
But all of this is useful to almost anyone:
- quickly summarize a recipe online, removing all the junk ads from the website.
- Brainstorming a quick travel itinerary (as a starting point) in 5 seconds.
- Getting a quick layman’s understanding of a topic you’re unfamiliar in.
- teens can brainstorm career paths. (tell an llm what they are good at, what they enjoy, and what they dislike)
- need to find a product online (tool, part, etc), but don’t know what it’s called? Describe it to an LLM! Then start your google search journey.
All of that is genuinely useful i think? IMO you’re conflating the _tech_, with how it’s being pushed onto the masses by the tech giants (siri, google search, etc).
