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On the current LLM chatbot mania:
1. The claim that they're glorified Markov chains, just stats engines, is wrong.
2. Some critics are essentially echoing Searle’s Chinese Room argument, which is wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
3. The VCs and BigCos are way out over their skis. Billions will be pissed away.
4. We don’t know yet whether the current obvious probs with the tech are fixable. Maybe, maybe not.
5. Wait-and-see is an extremely rational position at this point in history.