There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) “Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.”
I propose a fourth: AI is now as good as it’s going to get, and that’s neither as good nor as bad as its fans and haters think, and you’re still not going to get an A on your report.
You see, now that people have been using AI for everything and anything, they’re beginning to realize that its results, while fast and sometimes useful, tend to be mediocre.
My take is LLMs can speed up some work, like paraphrasing, but all the time that gets saved is diverted to verifying the output.
I have only found one good use so far and that is to quickly analyze, manipulate and visualize closed datasets. The moment you let it expand beyond your dataset, or ask it to “think” or “imagine”, it promptly shits the bed.
The old adage always applies. “Garbage in. Garbage out.” When you cannot strictly control the datasets being considered, you cannot trust that the results will not include garbage and noise.