Comment by tyre

I don’t know, this feels like a runaway fever dream HN reply.

Look, they’re useful. They are really good at some things. Not everything! But they can absolutely read PDFs of arcane rules and structure them. I don’t know what to tell you, they reliably can. They can also use tools.

They’re pretty cool and good and getting better at a remarkable rate!

Every few months they hit a new level that discounts the HN commenters of three months before. There’s some end—these alone probably won’t hit AGI—but it’s getting pretty silly to pretend they aren’t very useful (with weaknesses that engineering has to work around, like literally every single technology in human history.)