The first steam engines were also written off as being less powerful than a horse.
The first electric motors were written off as being less powerful than steam engines.
So it goes.
I think both of these views can be true at the same time: ChatGPT (or, LLMs really) are revolutionary and they won't revolutionize the world the way technologists/researchers say.
Early adopters will use the technology and do amazing things with it. Unions are already pushing back on AI (truckers, federal employees in Canada, writers in Hollywood) and maybe rightly so. At the same time, dismissing these technologies because they don't meet your high standards yet is probably foolish.
The first electric motors were written off as being less powerful than steam engines.
So it goes.
I think both of these views can be true at the same time: ChatGPT (or, LLMs really) are revolutionary and they won't revolutionize the world the way technologists/researchers say.
Early adopters will use the technology and do amazing things with it. Unions are already pushing back on AI (truckers, federal employees in Canada, writers in Hollywood) and maybe rightly so. At the same time, dismissing these technologies because they don't meet your high standards yet is probably foolish.