I want to preface my point by saying I love LLMs. I am very excited by what's on the horizon and their many useful applications. They are worth investing in and exploring. But it seems like to me many of the members of the tech community have adapted OpenAI's terminology of AGI without really thinking about it. There is an obvious financial benefit for the developers of LLMs to implant this idea as a north star for anything people do with LLMS. Similar to how crypto advocates have a financial stake in their adoption, every time someone puts AGI in their package name, it's free marketing for Sam and Satya. AGI is a science fiction concept that would magically solve all our problems, just like crypto was meant to replace the banks and usher in a new age in finance. I personally think we will look back on their pontificating about magic world changing AIs in a similar light.
Not to say LLMs aren't going to find their killer apps, but I will not be participating in any "to the moon" behavior and focus on finding tangible uses.
Not to say LLMs aren't going to find their killer apps, but I will not be participating in any "to the moon" behavior and focus on finding tangible uses.