csfirecracker

I didn't mean to argue against the usefulness of LLMs entirely, they absolutely have their place. I was moreso referring to how everyone and their dog are making AI assistants for tasks that need accurate data without addressing how easy it is for them to present you bad data with total confidence.

Thank you for putting it far more eloquently than I could have

This demonstrates in a really layman-understandable way some of the shortcomings of LLMs as a whole, I think.

At first I read it too fast and read he was getting top surgery. Would have been more newsworthy.

Assuming we ever find a way to get the plastic out of everything

Absolutely, I'll just get it on sale when the modding scene is mature.

Google has R&D ADHD. They get halfway to refining good ideas and then drop them for the new shiny. From the interviews with engineers in the article it seems like it comes from senior management.