Comment by ajross

> But hey...on the flip side...a lot of people are rapidly building software (that nobody is using), and AI is solving mathematics problems (that nobody - including mathematicians - wanted it to solve)

That's not fair. To first approximation, most of the progress in human condition of the last, like, forever is implementing solutions that people didn't see value in at the time of creation. Woz built a toy that could barely run software at all. The human genome project was panned as a boondoggle. Penicillin was a mistake.

The first fire pit probably looked like a dangerous stunt to the tribe faced with it, even.

Does that mean everything will come up roses? No. But LLMs only started talking to us for real like three years ago. Let's not just that fast.