The marketing hype is economy defining at this point, so calling it overblown is an understatement.

Simplifying the hype into 2 threads, the first is that AI is an existential risk and the second is the promise of “reliable intelligence”.

The second is the bugbear, and the analogy I use is factories and assembly lines vs power tools.

LLMs are power tools. They are being hyped as factories of thoughts.

String the right tool calls, agents, and code together and you have an assembly line that manufactures research reports, gives advice, or whatever white collar work you need. No Holidays, HR, work hours, overhead etc.

I personally want everyone who can see why this second analogy does not work, to do their part in disabusing people of this notion.

LLMs are power tools, and impressive ones at that. In the right hands, they can do much. Power tools are wildly useful. But Power tools do not make automatically make someone a carpenter. They don’t ensure you’ve built a house to spec. Nor is a planar saw going to evolve into a robot.

The hype needs to be taken to task, preferably clinically, so that we know what we are working with, and can use them effectively.