Comment by miyoji

> But if you can not see it as amazing you have lost the capacity to dream.

I completely disagree. I think if you think these things are amazing, your dreams are incredibly limited and boring.

I remember the first time I talked to a chatbot. Not an LLM, just a regular chatbot, like ELIZA or any other dumb bot.

For a few seconds, it felt magical, like I was talking to a computer that understood me, as it made replies that were sensible to what I was saying. Then it said something incredibly stupid and jarring that made no sense, and that took the magic away. Oh, this is just a dumb computer program.

I remember the first time I talked to an LLM-powered chatbot. It was the exact same thing, except the magic feeling lasted a tiny little bit longer and was a tiny little more convincing. But it went away in the exact same way, for the exact same reason. Once you've seen the emperor without clothes, nothing brings back the magic.