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).
